Bake up a delicious treat for the weekend with this walnut and banana traybake recipe from Lucy Hosier of What Luce Eats and California Walnuts. This tasty traybake is easy to put together and doesn’t even need any flour. We think it tastes especially good served with a generous helping of gut-friendly live yoghurt!
Walnuts make for a crunchy addition here and are a great vegetarian source of omega-3. They’re also an excellent source of prebiotic fibre, making them a fantastic way to feed our good gut bugs.
A generous helping of maple syrup helps to give this traybake recipe a delicious sweetness, but if you haven’t got this to hand, try swapping in an alternative like honey. We’ve got more information here for sugar swaps in your baking.
We love this walnut and banana traybake as a sweet treat but it also works as a nutritious light breakfast. Oats are great for slow release energy through the day.
Walnut and banana traybake recipe
Ingredients
- 175g walnuts
- 75g butter, melted
- 150g oats 350g oat flour (blended oats into oat flour)
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 3 tablespoons of maple syrup
- 1 egg
- 170ml milk
- 50g smooth peanut butter or tahini
- 2 tablespoons of cacao nibs (optional)
- Yoghurt to serve (optional)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180c and line a rectangular baking tray with parchment paper.
- Begin by mashing the bananas and combining with the melted butter, vanilla extract, maple syrup, flax egg, dairy free milk and peanut butter.
- Next finely chop or blend 100g of the walnuts into fine crumbs. Add to a separate bowl along with the oats, oat flour, ground cinnamon, baking powder and cacao nibs. Combine.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and thoroughly combine before emptying into the baking tray and flattening down.
- Chop the remaining 75g of walnuts and sprinkle on top. Push them down gently into the mixture.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes before allowing to cool slightly and cutting into portions. Serve with some yoghurt and enjoy!
