Topped with hand-crafted jam and creamy almond butter swirls, these banana bread bars are so tender, tender, and flavourful that you simply simply merely’d not at all consider they’re made with none flour, oil, or refined sugar.
It’s peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time!
Moreover not going. I counsel, it most positively could be peanut butter and jelly time everytime you occur to wished to swing that methodology, nonetheless given my physique’s pure aversion to the loathsome legume (be taught: my unfortunate peanut allergy), I don’t assume it’d go over too appropriately if I tried it myself.
So almond butter and jelly it is! Solely as an alternative of putting it in sandwich kind (which I’ve been having pleasing with for lunch for a protected two weeks now), we’re combining the same old combo with banana bread to create a batch of delicious gluten-free & vegan almond butter and jelly banana bread bars…
Woop, woop!
These tasty bars are an upgraded mannequin of the strawberry banana oat bars that I posted closing 12 months. And I say upgraded resulting from each little difficulty tastes elevated with almond butter. Or peanut, everytime you occur to swing that methodology.
The underside and filling are the identical (gluten-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free), solely this time there’s no crumble on prime. As a substitute, your full crust recipe is used for the base, giving these bars the model and actually truly actually really feel of a further tender and fluffy banana bread.
It’s type of dreamy… significantly with the almond butter and jelly swirl..
Moreover, can we please take a second to talk about my swirling experience. Or lack thereof. I see so many gorgeously executed swirlified desserts, after which right correct proper right here’s my almond butter and jelly banana bread bars making an attempt like I merely threw nut butter at them and sometimes generally known as it good… which I primarily did. Sort of like these work the place of us merely toss paint at a canvas and title it work.
No matter. Rolling with it.
So beneath these swirls patches of almond butter is a hand-crafted strawberry chia seed jam that sounds all fancy and sophisticated nonetheless is certainly large easy to make.
You may go for store-bought jam everytime you occur to essentially wished to, nonetheless I terribly advocate taking the further 10-Quarter-hour to make your particular specific individual jam. Not solely does it counsel that you simply simply merely get to keep away from any added refined sugars, nonetheless chances are high you may too reap some nice advantages of the entire up to date berries which have been popping up in retailers at present. Anyone else having pleasing with pure strawberries on sale?
Woop, woop!
That being talked about, it doesn’t must be strawberries, very like it doesn’t must be almond butter. You may merely as merely use blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and even cherries everytime you occur to wished to. The one problem I’d say you have to do is make these banana bread bars, stat…
Completely joyful consuming!
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Almond Butter and Jelly Banana Bread Bars
Complete Time:
40 minutes
Yield:
12 squares 1x
For the strawberry chia jam:
For the banana oat bars:
Instructions
- Make the jam:
- Add the strawberries and maple syrup to a medium saucepan set over medium heat. Heat until the berries begin to launch their liquid, about 5-Quarter-hour counting on whether or not or not or not or not or not that they’d been thawed first. Ship to a boil, stirring often, until the berries begin to interrupt down and thicken, about 5 -10 minutes. Use your spoon to interrupt them apart further, if desired.
- Stir contained within the chia seeds and vanilla, persevering with to arrange dinner dinner for another 5 minutes. Take away from the heat and allow the jam to relax out. It ought to proceed to thicken the longer it sits, which is why I often want to make it the night time time sooner than I’m planning on making these bars.
- Make the bars:
- Preheat oven to 375F (190C) and put collectively an 8×8 (20x20cm) baking dish by lining it with a sheet of aluminum foil or parchment paper, leaving numerous inches of overhang on the edges to allow for easy elimination. Spray foil with cooking spray and put apart.
- Place 1 cup (80 g) of oats in a meals processor or blender, and course of until they resemble a constructive flour. Swap the oat flour to a big mixing bowl, and add the remaining rolled oats, baking powder, and salt, mixing appropriately.
- Add the mashed bananas, maple syrup, and vanilla extract, mixing until each little difficulty is appropriately combined and a sticky dough is common.
- Swap the dough to your prepared baking pan, using a spatula to guarantee that it is evenly distributed. Spoon the chia jam over prime, and use a spatula to unfold it evenly, making certain to solely go inside 1/4 of the sting to forestall the jam from burning. Drop the almond butter in small dollops all by way of your full flooring of the jam, and use a toothpick to swirl it spherical a bit.
- Bake the bars for 30-35 minutes until the right has set. Take away them from the oven and allow them to relax out contained within the pan for about 20 minutes sooner than eradicating and slicing into bars.
Notes
* You probably can merely sub out strawberries in your favourite fruit. Or use 3/4 cup store-bought jam everytime you occur to don’t ought to make your particular specific individual. ** Make sure that to benefit from licensed gluten-free oats everytime you occur to need these to be gluten-free. *** Be totally glad to benefit from peanut butter if that’s what you should have available on the market, or use a soy-nut butter to make these nut free. Moreover, each clear,crunchy, pure, or no-stir work constructive. Do it is vital to’re having trouble getting your nut butter to unfold, soften it contained within the microwave for 30 seconds earlier to dropping on the bars.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Put collectively dinner dinner Time: half-hour
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