Vegan Mango Banana Bread
Was it you who spent last Friday night with a bottle of white wine and a truly GIANT bowl of salty, sweet popcorn.
Did you find yourself 4 hours into a Say Yes to the Dress marathon? Wait… did you cry a little bit?
Was it you who glanced at the random pair of scissors on your coffee table, then took a quick glance at the sleeping cat sitting to your left? Was it you who again glanced at the scissors… then back at the unsuspecting cat? Scissors. Cat. Scissors. Cat.
Wait… was it you who decided to give your poor, helpless cat a summer hair cut?
Was it you who found out that trimming a cat’s hair is actually waaaay harder than it seems?
Was it you left with the kinda silly, lopsided looking cat?
Was that you? Oh. Wait. No.
I guess that was ME. My bad. Honest mistake.
I can’t show you a picture of the cat. It’s downright embarrassing.
Ps. You should also know that I made some fruity, vegan banana bread.
I’m definitely sure that it was me who made it. I’m definitely sure it was me who ate just about the entire loaf.
Oh… also.. the cat licked a slice. He’s a sneaky creature.
Banana bread is a super awesome vegan treat.
It has enough banana, mango, and vegetable fat to keep this bread moist and flavorful, without anything animal-y in it.
I also love the flavor of ground ginger in this bread. The warm spice is nothing but right!
mmm hmm. Bake it.
Vegan Mango Banana Bread
makes one 9×5-inch loaf
3 medium or 2 large ripe bananas
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 ripe mango, sliced into chunks
granulated sugar for topping
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease and flour a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas well. Add the sugar, oil, and vanilla extract, and whisk briskly to incorporate.
Sift in the flour, baking soda, spices, and salt. Use a wooden spoon to mix until the wet and dry ingredients are just combined. Fold in mango chunks.
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and sprinkle with extra sugar if you’d like. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes. The top should be lightly browned and a knife inserted through the center should come out clean, or with just a few crumbs.
Remove from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes before transferring out of a pan and onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Banana bread will last, wrapped at room temperature, for up to 5 days… but it’s super delicious eaten within a few days.
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Did you find yourself 4 hours into a Say Yes to the Dress marathon? Wait… did you cry a little bit? YES
Wait… was it you who decided to give your poor, helpless cat a summer hair cut?
YES
Was it you who found out that trimming a cat’s hair is actually waaaay harder than it seems?
Already knew but did it anyways to get the dingle berries out of her hair.
You aren’t as strange as you think Joy. You are awesome! I think it’s time for some white wine. :)
My cat got attacked by dogs and when we took her to the vet, they needed to put an IV in her front leg, so they shaved it from wrist to elbow and then couldn’t find a vein, so they shaved the other one the same way and put it there. My kitty survived the attack just fine (and a second one, and a refreshment of antifreeze-no kidding about having 9 lives), but she sulked about her poodle legs for months.
Oh, I too had a kitty who was hospitalized and had to have the “poodle cut”on his front legs. I could’t stop laughing when they brought him to the exam room. He didn’t seem to care…he was just happy to be going home.
CLARIFICATION REQUEST – Hi Joy, this bread sounds delicious and I love that you have vegan recipes to your fantastic blog. With your next vegan recipe could you say a little about the sugar you use? I was taught that most white sugars and brown sugars are not vegan because they are filtered through animal bone char. Beet sugar, unbleached cane sugar, or dehydrated and granulated cane juice (and the brown sugar versions of those) are often vegan. I have far less cooking experience than you so if I’m wrong, of course, ignore me. Lastly and most importantly, you are awesome. Please remain so.
Hello Elle,
If you live nearby a Whole Foods, they do have a Vegan (don’t remember if it’s cane sugar) White Sugar, any 365 Organic Sugar is vegan (I’ve asked Whole Foods).
You can also make your own brown sugar by mixing molasses with white sugar.
Hello gia!,
Thanks for the advice. I don’t have a Whole Foods nearby but it warrants a bus trip. I used agave nectar instead of the other sugars and it worked out really well.
when i first started reading this post i thought it was going to be a murder mystery..but thankfully the scissors were only for fur pruning..love the look of the cake but i will have to wait a while cause it’s winter here..jane
Mango Bread! How Creative!
Yay! I’ve been looking for some more vegan baking recipes!
I gave Obi a hair cut while watching tv once. I stayed around the rear end, it save me. She only looked funny from the back….
Try shaving a dog….
I had to laugh out loud when I read about your cat! Lucky for all the cat’s I’ve owned they’ve all had short enough hair that couldn’t happen to them. Oh, and believe me it would have. BUT a certain ginormous golden retriever I owned just may have had all his hair buzzed off with a pouf left on the end of his tail. Not even kidding. He looked like a young lion. I wanna see your cat. I wouldn’t judge. Really. In fact you should take the opportunity to print out a poster and post it on the wall so whenever you need a laugh you can just look up! :D
Joy, Joy, Joy… I love when you post vegan. I’m just such tragic case over here recently developing a latex-fruit allergy. Say what? I know. Bananas make my stomach ache like no other ache. Sadness. But I love it, nonetheless, I will dream of the bread, and please keep vegan baked goods coming.
Did you seriously give your cat a hair cut? I bet its not that bad…
This bread looks gorgeous! I love bananas and mangos. I also have an endless supply of mangos as we kinda went crazy over here, bought, and froze like 3 crates of mangos.
Can we please see pictures of your cat?
I llooooove orange kitties! please pleasee show us a picture! :)
Hehe, poor kitty! That bread looks so good, mango and banana, yum!
Ha!!! I was watching that same Say Yes to the Dress Marathon :) Love it.
I am making this tomorrow. Thanks for the vegan recipes – its hard to find good ones!!
Awesome cat paperweight?. And I love when you cook vegan!
It must be banana bread season. I just made banana blueberry bread last night and gave it to some friends today. I posted the recipe on my blog.
I’s okay Joy-I triedx to shave my dog and he has a horrible bowl-like cut on top of his head and a stripe down the side of his body where I managed to get him cut before he totally freaked out…
Oh Well. Cats do need a change in hairstyle once in a while, … don’t they? ;-)
i seriously love reading your posts. it is the highlight of my week, not to mention the amazing looking treats! You keep us laughing…
My husband is pining and is afraid he might wither away if he doesn’t get to see the cat.
What simple and healthy ingredients to go in this lovely vegan bread! Love the crust and the color.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has a cat that likes to lick bread. I thought only my cat did that. :)
I have just made this and it is positively scrumptious!! Don’t have any vegan pals but I’m going to make this for all my silly friends who are concerned about saturated fat/cholesterol etc etc. Now stop trimming your cat.
I can’t wait to see the kitty pics. I can’t imagine trying to give a cat a haircut or even a trim…way to independent and squirmy . Those scissors could be dangerous for sure.
Maybe you should try electric clippers next time…and my cat licks, not bread…but armpits! Awkward…
I’m dying to see cat pictures. Perhaps a before and after? Pretty please?
:)
Why don’t I bake with mango more often? I have no idea. This looks wonderful. And why don’t I have a cat? Well, that is an easier question… because they do things like lick your yummy bread!
Oh YUM!!!! I can’t wait to make this! I already ate my mango I bought I few days ago but I’ll buy another one next week and make this! I want to share it with a gal I work with whose nuts about mangoes. She’ll love it! Thanks so much, Joy!
By the way, I SO much want to see those pictures of your kitty with the bad haircut job you gave it! Don’t deprive us of some giggles and laughs…please! :)
I love Banana Bread, and I usually put applesauce in mine, but I never thought of mangoes! Now I know what I’m going to do with the lonely mango in my fridge. Thanks!
Delicious…I’ll have to try.
I will make this tonight!! YUM! I bought a load of mangos at Costco and have been stuffing my face with them every night. Now I can eat them another way-in banana bread! How perfect!!
Made this bread last night after joyously (love how I use your name like that? wink, wink) came across a beautiful mango in my fridge. My 2 year 13 year old daughters went BESERK over the final product…it was amazing! Moist and flavorful as predicted. You are the bomb….
Thank you!!
K
Now my freckly bananas have a purpose today, looks amazingly yummy!
Made this recipe today…DELICIOUS! Thanks so much!
I baked this just now. It’s so delicious!!! Thank you!
I think I just might try to make this gluten-free…
BTW…I love the real life! So colorful and quirky!
Your banana breads are always wonderful (as are your stories!) and mango-anything is awesome. But, the bow-tie kitties under glass in the photo are scary enough… I don’t want to see what you did to your cat’s coat! :^)
Joy. I wanna hug you. Thank you for making me smile, even when you’re at the same time cruel enough to show me some (why so pretty?) mango bread, when I don’t have any mangos and it’s way past midnight here, which means I can’t get a hold on one. Should they by any chance grow on wet bushes in suburb gardens? Guess not. It’s allright. I forgive you.
the bread looks wonderful, let me just say it. but i want to see the caaaaat!!!
You are hysterical. I literally LOL when I read every blog post. Your recipes are great, but your witty words are the best!
HA. I made the same mistake with my dog about cutting his hair. I learned that lesson the hard way!
I wish I had watched the Say Yes to the Dress marathon…love that show!
Suprisingly yes, I have cut a cats hair before. And it was not even my cat. :) My best friend and I were extremely bored one day and just like you we looked from cat to scissors from scissors to cat and then at each other and both we like yes…no…YES! We tried giving it one of those show poodle cuts…you know the one where they have the balls at the feet and tail and then shaved everywhere else. Yeah. NOT cute on a cat. Her parents weren’t to happy either. But, her we had fun…that’s all that matters, right?
Hahaha oh no, the poor car! It happens to the best of us… Anything seems like a good idea 4 hours into a SYTTD marathon, midway through a kettlecorn coma. I have to admit, I wanna see a picture of the cat. But back to the bread: sounds awesome! Especially with a hefty scoop of cinnamon and ginger.
These were great! Well the version I made at least…thanks for the inspiration and idea!!
Joy! What program do you use to write on your photos? I’m so NOT splurging on photoshop… and yours always look great.
So made this bread this morning. It so rocked.
Mango.
Banana.
Bread.
Sold.
Vegan? Now you’re just cutting down my adapting time. Love you for that.
OH Joy the Baker, I made this and while it was baking I made Tracy’s banana bread and I’m having a taste off with myself and I honestly can’t decide. LOVE the mangos and can’t choose a winner because you are both amazing.