These Cherry Garcia Paleo Banana Bread Bars are a delicious and healthy combine the tasty chocolate and cherry ice cream flavor with classic banana bread! They are the perfect breakfast or snack and are gluten-free with a vegan option!
So let’s talk about something we all love, snacks.
To be honest, we are both not much of snackers because we prefer larger meals instead of smaller meals and small snacks. BUT, there are plenty times when I need a snack ,especially when I know that I won’t be able to eat a meal for awhile.
You know those times when you need to eat something right that second or your gonna punch someone in the face be really hangry? yeah, that’s why I need to make sure I snack.
When I need a snack, I need something that’s nutrient-dense, energizing and delish. That’s where Made In Nature comes in.
Made In Nature is an organic healthy food and snack company that dedicated to making healthy eating anything but boring! Now these kind of snacks are the type of snacks that are nutrient-dense AND taste delish.
Some of my favorite snacks from Made In Nature include Dried Tart Cherries, Espresso Coconut Chips (THESE <3) and Sriracha Chili Kale Chips. If these snacks don’t change your snacking game, I don’t know what will.
Enough snack talk, let’s cut to the chase and talk about these Cherry Garcia Banana Bread Bars.
I used Made In Nature Tart Cherries to transform the classic banana bread into well-known ice cream flavor and it’s one perfect. It’s even more epic knowing that these banana bread bars are made with whole food ingredients and are gluten-free, paleo, with a vegan option.
These bars are not only perfect for a quick breakfast, but they can also double as a snack and dessert.
Paleo Cherry Garcia Banana Bread Bars {Vegan option!}
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond meal/flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- pinch salt
- 2 ripe bananas mashed
- 1/2 cup almondor cashew butter
- 1 egg or flax/chia egg
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup Made in Nature Tart Cherries
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips use Enjoy Lifefor dairy-free
- Topping
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 tbsp coconut oil
- 2 tbsp Made in Nature Tart Cherries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and coat a 9x9 pan with cooking spray
- In a large bowl, add together flour, baking soda and salt
- In a small bowl mix together bananas, nut butter, egg and vanilla
- Add wet ingredients to dry and mix until combined
- Add in cherries and chocolate chips and place batter in pan
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until done
- For Topping microwave chocolate chips and coconut oil until melted, about 30-45 seconds and drizzle over bars and sprinkle with cherries
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This post is sponsored by Made In Nature, all opinions expressed are my own.
Seriously yum!! Cherry-chocolate is one of my favorite flavor combinations.
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oh I gotta go back to costco now and get those cherries! genius idea friend. Love it
Ohhh these banana bread bars sound heavenly! I made some banana bread last night but these bars sound 1000x times better with the choc chips and cherries!
Pinned for later because this girl loves tart cherries!! This recipe sounds like the perfect thing to make and nosh on all week long – my kind of snack 🙂
These look SO yummy!! I love the flavors. Banana bread + cherry garcia = looovvvee. Pinned!
What a creative version of banana bread…I have like 10 bananas that are just ripe enough to whip these up over the weekend!
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Love tart cherries!! So good! I’m not much of a snacker either, but I would totally dig snacking on squares of this!
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LOL I’m TOTALLY with you….I wish I was a better person and didn’t get so…ihavetoeatnoworillfreakout….but I do…so thank goodness for delicious snacks like these…and for progressive sanctification! Dear Jesus help me with my hanger…Love, Laura! 😉
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Oh my goodness GIMME!! Im so darn excited for all things cherries. I could literally go broke buying those suckers!
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Love the chocolate and cherry combo! This would totally be a perfect post-lunch sweet treat for me! 🙂
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oh wow these look amazing!! i dont know what i love more, the cherries or the drizzle
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Oh my- this looks amazing! Thanks for sharing and linking up 🙂
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HI Rachel & Bethany,
Wow this recipe sounds fabulous! The cherries are always a special ingredients in any recipe. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & tweeted!
YUMMY! These look so good Rachel and Bethany. I can’t wait to try them. Could I do some different berries? I also agree that having a dense snack is important for me too, or I’m just reaching for more and more and more, and that’s never a good thing. 🙂
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Aughh! That looks so good, and I love that chocolate drizzle! <3
I’m not a huge fan of mixing fruit/chocolate or fruit/vanilla, but I LOVE mixing tart cherries with chocolate! Yum!
love me some cherry garcia icecream..AND banana bread…so count me in on this one!
xo,
Sarah Grace
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These look amazing! I’m loving the paleo recipes – please keep them coming!
thank you! More on the way 🙂
heck yes, best combo 🙂
chocolate and cherries are the bomb!
thank you! Chocolate drizzle are the best!
Thank you Emily! Of course you can, any berries would work 🙂
thank you 🙂
thank you! Chocolate and cherries are amazing 🙂
yes, best treat ever 🙂
aren’t cherries the best!?
Woahhhh that looks amazing! And still healthy! My bff loves cherries so I might have to make this when she comes for a visit 🙂
Omg! Banana bread and chocolate! Brilliant! And a vegan option! Thanks for sharing at the Blogger’s Pit Stop!
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Cherry Garcia was my fav Ben & Jerry’s ice cream growing up, well when I was older and got it. These sound so delicious!
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Oh wow! Chocolate and cherries? Yes, please!
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You guys are magic.
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Ohh next time I let me bananas go bad on the counter, I’m giving these a try! They look so light and delicious!
OMG. OMG. These look so totally crave-worthy!! The flavor with banana and cherry…these sound absolutely perfect.
Cherry garcia is one of my FAV ice creams ever. Love that you combined it with banana bread!
OMG, ladies, I just drooled on my keyboard! 🙂 Yummm…
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Do you think it would be ok to make these a few days in advance and then freeze them?
Hi Marie,
Yes that would certainly be fine! You may want to wait to drizzle on the chocolate sauce though, until your’e ready to eat them! Hope you enjoy 🙂
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Wow these are stunning! What a tasty combination of ingredients and the cherries and chocolate…..oh yum!!
Yes cherries and chocolate is delish!!!
so good 🙂
yes it’s even better in banana bread!!!
thank you!
you totally should, thanks so much!!
not as magical as you and your breakfast cakes!
so good!
it’s mine too! Thanks 🙂
thank you!
I’m a BIG fan of fresh cherries! The closest I’ve got to a dried cherry is in a chocolate bar (and it was delish). I will have to try baking with them because these bars look AMAZING!
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Hi Bethany & Rachel,
Just a note to let you know that I have chosen your article as one of my features for this weeks Real Food Fridays blog hop that goes live every Thursday @ 7pm EST. Thank you for being part of Real Food Fridays mission to help make this world a little bit healthier every week. Happy Spring!
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thanks!
yes you gotta try them, so delish! Thank you 🙂
Whoa! These sound so good! Thanks for sharing it with us at Savoring Saturdays last week.
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