Bananas – an unexpectedly divisive fruit. Whilst you’d think everybody at least likes banana (I mean, come on, it’s soft. It doesn’t even hurt when it falls on your head!) actually some people really don’t like them. Well, I’m afraid if you’re one of those people… you might want to stop reading.
Sometimes, I overbuy bananas. Whilst my OH has been living in Manchester for the past six months, I pretty much by them as if he’s still here and having 1-2 a day.
Needless to say, I often have too many. But, since I recently had to empty my freezer, chopping them up and storing them on ice hasn’t been an option. Cue: very ripe bananas. Watch out for stage left, because vegan banana flapjacks are incoming!
What to make with overripe bananas?
Yes, indeed. What do you make with overripe bananas? Aside from smoothies! Well, I tend to bake with mine. Historically, it’s been a bit of a success. Kitchen adventures with them include:
- Incredible Banana Oreo Cupcakes
- Vegan Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Superpowered Cacao & Maca Oat Cookies
But this time I wanted something.. oaty. You know I love oats! So I decided to make some flapjacks. And I didn’t have any sugar so… I had to make sugar free flapjacks!
No sugar? No problem!
The natural sweetness of the bananas does most of the work, whilst also adding a delicious flavour. However, I also added sultanas and dried goji berries to really seal the deal. In fact, goji berries got in there twice because I used some milled flaxseed & goji berries (from Linwoods) too! So I guess they’re kind of… goji-goji vegan banana flapjacks but to be honest, that seemed like a bit of a mouthful, and you could easily substitute them for something else.
Vegan Banana Flapjacks (Sugar free, Gluten free)
Luci Rebecca, Made by Luci
Do you go bananas for bananas? Then you'll love these vegan banana flapjacks! They have no added sugar and could easily be gluten free too - just use certified gluten free oats.
- Prep: 10 minutes
- Cook: 55 minutes
- Total: 1 hour, 5 minutes
- Yield 16
- Serves 1 square
- Calories 136
Ingredients
- 20g margarine (eg Vitalite)
- 20g vegetable fat (eg Trex)
- 30g almond butter
- 1 tbsp sugar free vanilla syrup
- 30g maple syrup
- 100ml water
- 2 medium (175g peeled) bananas, mashed
- 200g porridge oats
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 50g milled flaxseed & goji berries
- 30g Diced Papaya
- 90g Sultanas
- 30g Dried goji berries
Directions
- Heat oven to 150 degrees C (fan). Grease and line a baking tin (about 20cm square) with baking parchment.
- Mix together all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Melt the almond butter, margarine and vegetable fat in a saucepan over a low heat, then add the mashed bananas, sugar free syrup, maple syrup and water. Stir to combine.
- Pour the wet mixture over the dry and mix together until well combined.
- Tip the combined mixture into the lined baking tin and pat it down until level (I just use the back of a spoon).
- Bake in the centre of the oven for about 55 minutes, until golden. Then remove from the oven and leave it alone! Let it cool in the tin. Then cut into 16 squares and serve.
Notes
To make gluten free, just use certified gluten free oats.
Always seem to have over ripe bananas so this healthy flapjack would be ideal
This would be perfect then! And if you don’t have enough for the full recipe, you could just half it 🙂 x
Oh wow! These flapjacks sound incredible! Such a great use of bananas and I love that they are sugar free and vegan.
Thank you 🙂 x
These are perfect for starting the day off right! I love that the bananas offer the abitliy to not add any other sugar! Pinning!
Ripe bananas are brilliant, right? No one at work believed me when I said they were only sweetened with bananas! x
These look so good and so healthy! I’m guilty of sometimes skipping breakfast when I’m busy, so I always need make-ahead brekkies that I can grab in a flash. These seem perfect!
These would certainly be better than nothing, or something packed with sugars and processed flours (in my opinion) plus… BANANA POWERRRR <3
These sound so delicious — I’m a banana fan, but the goji berries and sultanas too? Wow! I love this!
Heheh basically: ALL THE NICE THINGS in one easy bake ^_^ x