This Coconut Flour Bread recipe is easy to make, vegan, gluten-free, yeast-free, no-knead, nut-free, sugar-free, oil-free and contains no eggs! It's moist, fluffy and bendy, has a neutral flavour and slices easily. There's no kneading or proving time needed, it's made in one bowl and requires just 15 minutes to put together before baking! Best for sandwiches or toast.
You can buy coconut flour in the flour section of most supermarkets, local health stores or online.
This bread has quite a neutral flavour with a faint nutty flavour of coconut. The amount of coconut flour in this bread is relatively low and it's mixed in with a gluten-free flour blend, so it doesn't have an overpowering coconut flavour.
Because this bread contains coconut flour, it's low carb compared to traditional bread recipes. Coconut flour is nutritious and is a great source of dietary fibre.
Many baking recipes with coconut flour rely on a lot of eggs as a rising and binding agent.
However, this is an egg-free and vegan recipe. Although you can make a coconut bread recipe with yeast, but this one is yeast-free too.
The main raising agent in this recipe is baking powder.
The bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) and vinegar are essential raising agents too: the alkali bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) reacts with the acidic vinegar to make the batter fluffy, which makes the bread rise without eggs.
Coconut flour can make baked goods very dry as it absorbs a lot of moisture compared to many other types of flour. So, it's important not to use it as a 1:1 substitute for other types of gluten-free flour. You can avoid it making this bread dry by:
1. Using a very small amount of coconut flour - it really expands when liquid is added, so you only need to use a tiny amount.
2. Mixing the coconut flour with an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend also helps to make it less dense.
This Coconut Flour Bread keeps well covered in the fridge for a good few days. It's best toasted before eating.
Yes - just make sure to slice it up before putting in the freezer if you want to take it out a slice at a time.
To defrost, just pop the frozen slices straight in the toaster.
Yes, but they must be used in different quantities. Use my Almond Bread recipe instead!
Steaming bread in the oven might sound complicated, but it's super easy! All you need to do is bake it in the oven with a baking dish filled with water. The water from the baking dish will release steam in the hot oven and create a humid environment for the bread to bake.
Baking bread in a steamy, humid environment creates a doughy texture, meaning it doesn't fall apart when slicing, and a super crispy crust. It also creates a better flavour!
Tips for steaming bread in the oven
- Make sure to add boiling water to the baking dish.
- Place the bread on a higher rack in the oven and place the baking dish of water on the lower rack.
- If the water in the baking dish all runs out during the baking process, make sure to refill it.
- Be VERY CAREFUL when opening the oven door to remove the bread, because a lot of HOT STEAM will escape from the oven and you might burn yourself.
- To prevent this from happening, open the oven door first, then step back until all the hot steam has escaped from the oven before putting your hands inside to remove the bread. Also, make sure to wear oven gloves and a long-sleeved shirt.
- Make sure to leave the bread to cool completely before slicing.
How to make this recipe
Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the full recipe.
- Mix together all the ingredients in a glass mixing bowl.
- Transfer the batter into a one-pound loaf tin.
Tip: Line the tin with greased baking paper to make the bread easier to remove after.
- Sprinkle over mixed seeds to decorate, if desired.
- Fill a baking dish up to halfway with boiling water.
- Place the bread on a higher rack in the oven and place the baking dish of water on the lower rack.
- Bake in the oven for around 45 minutes.
- Transfer the loaf to a cooling rack to cool down on completely before packing away to store because otherwise the steam from the warm bread will get trapped and you'll end up with soggy bread, which nobody wants!
- It also needs to be left to cool completely before slicing.
Serving suggestions
You can use this as a sandwich bread, or it works great as toast topped with jam or vegan cashew cream cheese! Stale bread is great for making Vegan Bread Pudding.
Substitutions you can make
- If you're not gluten-free, you can use plain flour instead of gluten-free flour.
- You can use any type of plant-based milk: almond milk, soy milk, rice milk etc.
- You can replace the plant-based milk with water.
- You can replace the apple cider vinegar with lemon juice.
Ingredients you can add to the dough
- Mixed seeds.
- Dried fruit such as dried cranberries, raisins, chopped dates etc.
- You can make it more savoury by adding grated garlic, chopped olives or sun-dried tomatoes!
More gluten-free vegan bread recipes
- Gluten-Free Vegan Chickpea Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Blueberry Banana Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Irish Soda Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Almond Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Oat Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Dinner Rolls
- Gluten-Free Vegan Seeded Buckwheat Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Cornbread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Walnut Bread
- Garlic Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Oatmeal Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Biscuits
- Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Bread
- Quinoa Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Orange Poppy Seed Bread
- or browse the whole collection!
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Watch how to make this recipe
Coconut Flour Bread (Vegan + Gluten-Free)
Ingredients
- 45 g (½ cup) coconut flour
- 225 g (1 ⅔ cup) gluten-free flour blend (or sub plain flour if not gluten-free)
- 4 teaspoons baking powder (ensure gluten-free if necessary)
- ¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- ¼ teaspoon salt to taste
- 420 ml (1 ¾ cup) unsweetened almond milk (or sub any other plant-based milk or water)
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar * (ensure gluten-free if necessary)
To decorate (optional):
- Mixed seeds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Place the coconut flour, gluten-free flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl and mix well.
- Add the almond milk and vinegar and mix again.
- Transfer the mixture to a loaf tin (I used a one-pound loaf tin) lined with greased baking paper.
- Sprinkle over mixed seeds to decorate, if desired.
- Fill a baking dish up to halfway with boiling water.
- Place the bread on a higher rack in the oven and place the baking dish of water on the lower rack.
- Bake in the oven for around 45 minutes, until risen and an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Be VERY CAREFUL when opening the oven door to remove the bread, because a lot of HOT STEAM will escape from the oven and you might burn yourself. To prevent this from happening, open the oven door first, then step back until all the hot steam has escaped from the oven before putting your hands inside to remove the bread. Also, make sure to wear oven gloves and a long-sleeved shirt.
- Leave to cool completely on a wire rack before slicing and before putting away to store (it's much easier to slice the day after it's made).
- Tastes best eaten freshly made, but keeps well covered in the fridge for a good few days - if not eaten on the day it's made, it's best toasted before eating.
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Notes
- Make sure to add boiling water to the baking dish.
- If the water in the baking dish all runs out during the baking process, make sure to refill it.
- Be VERY CAREFUL when opening the oven door to remove the bread, because a lot of HOT STEAM will escape from the oven and you might burn yourself.
- To prevent this from happening, open the oven door first, then step back until all the hot steam has escaped from the oven before putting your hands inside to remove the bread. Also, make sure to wear oven gloves and a long-sleeved shirt.
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Anonymous
Thanks for sharing your recipes. I have not tried any of them yet but will try the coconut bread.
I was shocked to see that your spelling of Rhian is exactly like my daughter's! How cool!
Blessings,
Quita
Rhian Williams
Hi Quita, thank you so much for the lovely feedback! And thank you also for sharing about your daughter - how nice that we share the same name! I hope you'll enjoy the coconut bread!