Esta Pão de Macaco de Banana is an easy bread bread recipe made with a homemade banana biscuit dough that takes just 2 ingredients: banana and self-rising flour. It’s healthier than most classic monkey bread recipes made from store-bought biscuit dough. Egg-free, dairy-free, vegan.
When I came up with my Bolinhos de banana com 2 ingredientes, it made my day (and it made my kids’ breakfast), because it was such an easy, fun, and totally delicious recipe. But then, I thought that the dough I created had to be good for more. A lot more.
I love making breakfast bread, like my Pão de banana com 3 ingredientes or Pão de banana com gotas de chocolate vegano. So, could I combine my passion for banana bread with my newfound love for this ridiculously easy 2-ingredient dough? You bet! The answer was monkey bread.
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Pão de Macaco de Banana
Ingredientes
- 2 ¾ copos Self-rising Flour - (nota 1)
- 2 colheres de sopa Canela
- ¼ xícara Açúcar de coco - (nota 2)
- 1 ½ xícara Bananas maduras amassadas - equivalent to 3 large bananas
- 1 Banana - optional, to slice on top
Tempero
- ¼ xícara Óleo de canola - (nota 3)
- ¼ xícara Açúcar de coco - (nota 2)
Opcional
- ½ colher de chá sal
Instruções
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C). Line a 9-inch x 5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper. Slightly oil paper with cooking oil spray.
- In a small bowl, stir coconut sugar with cinnamon. Set it aside.
- Mash the banana in a mixing bowl and make sure you pack the mashed banana in your measuring cups after sweeping off the excess to precisely measure 1 1/2 cups. Return to the bowl.
- Stir in self-rising flour, and salt if used, with a rubber spatula. When it starts to look crumbly, use your hands to knead and press the dough together. It will be very sticky, which is normal. Keep kneading until it forms a ball of dough.
- Clean your hands, oil them with oil, and rub some oil on your work surface and all around the dough.
- Divide the dough into balls – they don't have to be perfect, but roughly the same size – about the size of a golf ball. Set aside.
- Roll each dough ball into the cinnamon sugar prepared before.
- Place the dough balls in the prepared loaf pan. Arrange them next to each other to form a first layer, then stack them up in the pan until all the balls are in the pan.
- In another bowl, stir the coconut sugar and oil. The mixture will resemble a slightly liquid paste.
- Drizzle this paste on top of the bread and in the holes between the dough balls so it runs down the pan and forms a caramel layer when baking.
- If you like, add banana slices on top of the bread.
- Bake on the center rack of the oven for 35 minutes at 350 °F (180 °C) until golden brown and puffy.
- Flip the bread upside down on a wooden board and let it cool down to room temperature.
- Serve plain or with a drizzle of vegan royal icing.
Notas
Nutrição
O que é Pão de Macaco?
Classic monkey bread is a baked breakfast treat made from balls of dough stacked in a pan and drenched in melted butter, cinnamon, and sugar that creates a moist and sticky coating around the dough, similar to a rolo de canela.
It’s a very American thing that should really be more popular all around the world because it’s just so very delicious. I take it as my personal quest to make this recipe more visible! The balls of dough make it the perfect shareable breakfast or treat because your whole family can grab one, all at the same time. No need to slice it!
While the classic monkey bread is made in a Bundt pan (like my Bolo Bundt Vegano), you can make it in any type of pan. I’ve tried a few, and it was always delicious. Since I wanted to make a banana bread × monkey bread crossover, it only made sense to make this one in a loaf pan.
Tell me in the comentários below if you think this should be called Pão de Macaco de Banana or Monkey Banana Bread!
Ingredientes e Substituições
You need two ingredients for the dough, and three ingredients for the coating and filling and I’m ready to bet you have them in your pantry right now, so there’s no reason not to make this recipe now.

- Farinha Auto-Crescente – Self-rising (or is it self-raising?) flour is a pre-mixed flour made with all-purpose flour and baking powder. If you can’t find it in-store, you can make it yourself. Add 2 teaspoons of baking powder for each cup of flour. For a gluten-free option, use my conversor sem glúten, but don’t forget the baking powder. Because this dough is so simple, you cannot swap the flour for any other flour, like almond flour or coconut flour.
- Bananas amassadas – Bananas act as the sweetener and binding agent and bring moisture to the bread. You can play with the sweetness of the dough by just waiting before you bake the recipe (or buying riper bananas). One day of ripening will make the bread a notch sweeter.
- Sugar – I like to use unrefined, natural coconut sugar because it is (according to science) healthier than white sugar. If you’d rather go for a sugar-free alternative, you can use natural sweeteners like stevia-erythritol or allulose (though they might give you a minty feeling on the palate).
- Canela – True monkey bread requires a cinnamon sugar mixture to bring out all the traditional flavors of the treat.
- Óleo de abacate – While the classic recipe uses melted dairy butter, my favorite option is to make a coating with avocado oil. It’s one of the healthiest oils and has a high smoke point, which means it doesn’t degrade into dangerous chemicals at higher temperatures.
How To Make Banana Monkey Bread
The detailed steps are in the recipe card below and are fairly easy to follow. I will just include in this section photos of the key steps, so you know what the bread should look like! Scroll below for the full step-by-step video!






Vídeo passo a passo
Pro Tips for Perfect Treats
- Meça com precisão: Both the flour and the bananas need to be accurately measured. Use ultra-ripe bananas for best flavors and sweetness, the ones with dark skin.
- Sove a massa: The dough must be knead by hands for a few minutes. Even if it’s sticky, keep kneading until it comes together. Then, use oil to rub onto the dough and make it soft, smooth, elastic, instead of adding too much flour that makes the dough dense.
- Drop the pieces of dough in the loaf pan, don’t press them in the pan. This is essential for the monkey bread to split like it should.
- Use an oil with low flavor or melted plant-based butter to avoid strong flavors that oil like unrefined coconut oil would bring.

More Ripe Banana Recipes
If you still haven’t used all your ripe bananas, use them in these recipes:






Just made it, super fun and easy! I wish the recipe included salt. Tasted mine and immediately thought, whoops— no salt!!
This recipe is good and comes together easily.
Going to make this for an upcoming tea party, thank you for the recipe
What’s the recipe for the vegan royal icing?
Aqui está o meu glacê real vegano .
what other options mught work for bananas. Severe allergy to bananas, but love monkey bread.
I haven’t tried something else yet, may plain yogurt, or unsweetened applesauce, but I can’t guarantee this works, just an idea!
Can you use Gluten free flour
I haven’t managed to make this recipe with GF flour yet, sorry!
V good recipe! Can you please change the name to Banonkey Bread?
Haha, this would make a whole lot of sense.
Can you used butter instead? If so, how much better would you use instead of coconut oil?
It’d probably work, yes. Same melted quantity.
easy to make and easy to follow recipe, but the banana bread won’t finish? has been in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes and is still raw? do not get it ? any suggestions
Sounds like you used regular flour, not self -rising. Or, perhaps your self-rising four was beyond it’s shelf life?
That’s very odd! Do you live in altitude? Are other recipes fine?
This recipe makes bread that is quite moist, but it should be done inside!
Thank you. I’m in love with this recipe.
It was Definitely a !
Oh thank you!!
Can you use coconut oil instead of avocado
Yes, it works fine!!