I snuck a piece of my mother in law’s fantastic strawberry bread last weekend. Delicious. Have been craving more all week, and I was surprised that I couldn’t find a recipe for a basic date-nut bread that’s 100% WFPB.

I adapted this recipe, like so:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups pitted dates, chopped (measured whole)
• 2 tbsp flax meal + 6 tbsp water (2 flax eggs)
• 1 ripe banana
• 1.5 cups hot water
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1.5 cups white whole wheat flour
• 0.5 cups oat flour (I pulverized .5 cups steel cut oats in my blender)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup pecan pieces, toasted

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Lightly oil a loaf pan or line with parchment paper
3. Mix flax meal and water, set aside to thicken
4. Pour hot water over chopped dates, set aside to soften
5. Stir together flours, salt, baking soda, and pecans
6. Mash banana very smooth, then stir in flax eggs and dates, including water
7. Fold dry and wet ingredients together until just combined
8. Pour/scoop into loaf pan
9. Top with rolled oats (or nuts or seeds or whatever)
10. Bake for about an hour, rotating the pan halfway through the cook time. Bread is done when a toothpick comes out clean (I started checking mine at 50 minutes but ended up cooking it the whole hour).
11. Remove from oven and cook in pan for 20 min, then remove from pan to finish cooling. (I didn’t actually get past the first20 minutes.)

Husband and toddler approved!