All winter long I wanted to dig into my warm bowl of comforting porridge in the morning, but now it’s time for something different. This vegan gluten-free fruit and nut bread with chocolate butter is really something else. It’s more in the dessert for breakfast category than plain brekkie one, and I couldn’t ask for more. I’m definitely a dessert for brekkie kinda girl and I know many of you are too. Especially when it’s the healthy kind of dessert.
This soft bread and creamy spread is actually quite good for you – the bread is naturally sweetened with just fruit and the chocolate spread is all raw cacao powder, cacao butter and coconut butter goodness. This bread is ideal for weekend brekkies and brunches but also sweet enough to have with afternoon coffee. My children eat this bread as a dessert, but I choose to eat this on Monday mornings to start the week in a good way, the best possible way – with delicious food.
Happy new week!
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- Vegan gluten-free fruit and nut bread
- Dry ingredients
- 1 cup gluten-free all purpose flour
- 1 cup gluten-free oat flour
- ⅓ cup almond flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- Wet ingredients
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 flax egg (1 tbsp flax meal + 3 tbsp water)
- ⅓ cup olive oil or melted coconut oil (or about half and half of both)
- Fruits and nuts
- ½ cup pecans (or hazelnuts or a mix of nuts)
- 7 dried organic apricots (about ⅓ cups)
- ¼ cup organic raisins
- Chocolate butter
- ½ cup coconut butter
- ¼ cup cacao butter
- 1 tbsp raw cacao powder
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- pinch of salt
- Fruit and nut bread: preheat oven to 390 F / 200 C.
- Mix almond milk with apple cider vinegar and let set for about 5 minutes. Mix flax meal with water and let set for 5 minutes.
- Roughly chop pecans (or other nuts) and apricots.
- Add all dry ingredients to a bowl and stir well.
- In a separate bowl, mix together all wet ingredients: almond milk + ACV mixture, flax egg and olive oil (or melted coconut oil or both).
- Mix wet ingredients to dry ingredients stirring well and fold in chopped nuts, apricots and raisins.
- Use your hands to combine all the ingredients properly. The dough should feel firm.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and form the dough into a round bread shape. With a sharp knife gently cut a cross on top of the bread (to prevent it from cracking randomly).
- Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let cool a bit and cut into slices with a good bread knife. Store in the fridge in a sealed container for up to five days or store slices in the freezer.
- Chocolate butter: melt all chocolate butter ingredients in a water bath for a few minutes. Mix well and pour into a clean glass jar (or other clean container).
- Let set in the fridge for at least 15 min for the butter to become solid. Spread this creamy chocolate on top of fruit and nut bread and enjoy!
As if a beautiful loaf like this of gluten-free bread isn’t enough to get me excited, you add all sorts of yummy mix-ins and make it breakfast approved! I love porridge too, but I really love where this craving for something new led 🙂 I have tried and failed at oat-flour loaves so many times before, but this one looks perfect. The texture, the crust, everything. I must try this flour combination, and I love that you kept the rest of the ingredients simple too. Don’t even get me started on the magic that is chocolate butter…I want a side of that with everything from now on please! Next monday I’m coming to your house for breakfast <3
Thank you so much for your lovely comment again. Would be so much fun to have you here for brekkie or snack-ssert some day 🙂 You’re always welcome here!! Enjoy your weekend dear <3
Tiina,
I love this one! I’m sure it must taste amazing:) The ingredient list is like for a sponge cake! Can’t wait to try it! And that spread!! So good!
Sending love
Maja xx
Thank you so much my dear! And sorry for late response, my blog was working very poorly for a while but now I hope it’s running smoothly again. Lots of love to you <3 Happy weekend 🙂
Please i am intolerant to oats. In brazil
I have Teff, millet or quinoa flours as alternatives. Do you think they can work here? Thanks and congratulations for the blog
Thank you Daniela for your great question and comment. Unfortunately I haven’t tried teff flour so not sure how it would work. I would probably try it out with quinoa flour! Let me know how it works if you try it. Have a lovely day 🙂
I can’t wait to try this, but there is no raising agent in the mix?
Hi lovely and thank you for the comment! I use baking soda and apple cider vinegar as “raising agent”. This bread is supposed to be thick and dense, it’s not a fluffy big bread. Hope this helps 🙂 Have a lovely day!
This looks delicious! I can’t eat almonds though, do you think I could sub ground sunflower seeds instead? x
Thanks for asking! I’m sure you can! Hope it turns out good 🙂 Have a lovely day!