Almond Flour Flaxseed Bread (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Option)
This delicious almond flour flaxseed bread is packed with flavor and will keep you satisfied for long. With a heartier and denser texture, this flax almond bread is perfect toasted and can be enjoyed either sweet or savory. Gluten-free and lower in carbs, it can be easily made dairy-free too!
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Flax Almond Bread – An Easy Low Carb Quick Bread
I first made this bread recipe back in 2014 (more than 10 years ago!), because of how quick it was to bring together, no fuss required.
Since then, it has constantly been one of the most pinned recipes on the blog. Mostly, I think it’s because it’s so easy to make, and it’s full of flavor.
If you’re a fan of homemade bread as much as I am (and in particular quick breads), then you’ll be sure to LOVE this recipe, just as so many other readers do!
Why You’ll Love this Recipe:
- Simple Ingredients: The main ingredients required for this quick bread recipe are easily accessible at the local grocery store (nothing fancy required!).
- Super Easy to Make: With an earthy nutty flavor, this beautiful and uncomplicated quick bread is ready in just 45 minutes, so if you start now, you’ll have a fresh loaf of bread in no time at all!
- Gluten-Free, Low Carb, with Dairy-Free Option: The great news is that it’s 100% gluten-free, and can easily be made dairy-free. And bonus: it’s also lower in carbs because of the almond flour and flaxseed meal used (in place of regular flour). This means that even those with Celiac disease or gluten or lactose intolerances, or those on a low carb diet can enjoy it without issues!
Ingredients You’ll Need:
Here’s a visual overview of the ingredients required for making this easy almond flaxseed bread recipe.
(For exact measurements, please scroll down to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.)
Recipe Notes + Substitutions:
- Almond Flour: I used almond flour, but ground almond meal will work too.
- Ground Flaxseeds: I find it best to use freshly ground flaxseed meal. Either brown or golden flaxseed meal will work. (Here’s how to grind flaxseed at home.)
- Whole Flax Seeds: I used whole brown flaxseeds, but golden flax seeds will work just as well.
- Baking Powder: As this is a quick bread, baking powder is the only leavening agent used to help the batter to rise, so make sure to add it in. If you are Celiac or gluten-intolerant, make sure to use gluten-free baking powder.
- Tapioca Starch: Tapioca starch (sometimes also called ‘tapioca flour’) helps to add binding powder to the batter. If you don’t have tapioca starch, you may use arrowroot starch instead.
- Butter: I used regular butter, but if you are lactose-intolerant, go ahead and use melted dairy-free butter (vegan butter) or melted coconut oil instead.
- Eggs: Eggs are necessary to bind the ingredients together as well as to give the batter rise, so make sure you add them in. If you prefer to leave out the yolks, you can use 8 egg whites instead of 4 whole eggs.
- Apple Cider Vinegar: Apple cider vinegar helps to create a more acidic environment that will react with the baking powder to make the batter rise more.
- Greek Yogurt: Greek yogurt adds moisture to this flaxseed almond flour bread. If you are lactose-intolerant, go ahead and use unsweetened dairy-free yogurt instead.
- Sesame Seeds: I like using white sesame seeds as a nice color contrast to the brown flaxseeds.
How to Make Almond Flour Flaxseed Bread (Step by Step):
Prepare Dry and Wet Ingredients
Whisk Dry Ingredients: Mix the almond flour, ground flaxseeds, whole flaxseeds, salt, baking powder and tapioca starch in a large mixing bowl until well combined.
Combine Wet Ingredients: Whisk the melted butter with the eggs, apple cider vinegar and yogurt, making sure to whisk well to ensure a light and fluffy texture.
Form Batter and Transfer to Loaf Pan
Combine Wet and Dry Ingredients to Form Batter: Gently mix the wet ingredients with dry ingredients to form a batter, but do not over mix or batter will become too dense and oily.
Transfer Batter to Pan: Pour the batter into previously prepared loaf pan, and sprinkle the top with a mix of whole brown flaxseeds and white sesame seeds.
Bake Until Golden Brown
Bake Until Ready: Bake in the preheated oven at 350F (180C) for about 30-35 minutes until golden brown or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Cool Before Removing and Slicing: Once baked, allow the almond flaxseed bread to cool on a cooling rack for 10-15 minutes before removing it from pan and slicing.
Dish by Dish Tips/Tricks:
- Grind Your Own Flaxseed Meal: I find that it’s best to use freshly ground flaxseed meal, and I’ll show you just how easy it is to make homemade flax meal!
- Make it Dairy-Free: If you are lactose-intolerant, simply swap out the butter for dairy-free butter or coconut oil, and substitute the yogurt with dairy-free yogurt.
- Optional Add-Ins: Feel free to add in a handful of seeds into the batter for more texture (such as sunflower seeds, chia seeds, etc.)
- Storing: To store, wrap the cooled almond flax bread in plastic wrap or place it in an airtight container and store it in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. In my opinion, this bread is best toasted before eating.
Other Low Carb Bread Recipes to Bake:
- Coconut Flour Bread (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Easy Almond Flour Bread (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Fluffy Low Carb Buns (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
Other Almond Flour Recipes You’ll Enjoy:
- Amazing Flourless Almond Cake (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Almond Flour Graham Crackers (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan)
Other Flaxseed Recipes You’ll Love:
- Moist Flaxseed Bread (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Easy Flaxseed Muffins (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- Flaxseed Coconut Bread (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
- 5-Ingredient Banana Flaxseed Waffles (Gluten-Free)
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Almond Flour Flaxseed Bread (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Option)
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 12 slices 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
This delicious almond flour flaxseed bread is packed with flavor and will keep you satisfied for long. With a heartier and denser texture, this flax almond bread is perfect toasted and can be enjoyed either sweet or savory. Gluten-free and lower in carbs, it can be easily made dairy-free too!
Ingredients
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds
- 1 tablespoon whole brown flaxseeds
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup tapioca starch
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup of unsweetened plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon whole brown flaxseeds, for sprinkling
- 1 tablespoon white sesame seeds, for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat & Grease: Pre-heat oven to 350F (180C) and grease a 9″x5” loaf pan.
- Whisk Dry Ingredients: Mix the almond flour, ground flaxseeds, whole flaxseeds, salt, baking powder and tapioca starch in a large bowl until well combined.
- Melt Butter: In a small saucepan, melt butter and then let it cool for 5 minutes.
- Combine Wet Ingredients: Whisk the melted butter with the eggs, apple cider vinegar and yogurt, making sure to whisk well to ensure a light and fluffy texture.
- Combine Wet and Dry Ingredients to Form Batter: Gently mix the wet ingredients with dry ingredients to form a batter, but do not over mix or batter will become too dense and oily.
- Transfer Batter to Pan: Pour the batter into previously prepared loaf pan, and sprinkle the top with a mix of whole brown flaxseeds and white sesame seeds.
- Bake Until Ready: Bake in the preheated oven for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool Before Removing and Slicing: Once baked, allow bread to cool for 10-15 minutes before removing it from pan and slicing.
Notes
Almond Flour: I used almond flour, but ground almond meal will work too.
Ground Flaxseeds: I find it best to use freshly ground flaxseed meal. Here’s how to grind flaxseed at home.
Whole Flaxseeds: I used whole brown flaxseeds, but golden flax seeds will work just as well.
Baking Powder: As this is a quick bread, baking powder is the only leavening agent used to help the batter to rise, so make sure to add it in. If you are Celiac or gluten-intolerant, make sure to use gluten-free baking powder.
Tapioca Starch: Tapioca starch (sometimes also called ‘tapioca flour’) helps to add binding powder to the batter. If you don’t have tapioca starch, you may use arrowroot starch instead.
Butter: I used regular butter, but if you are lactose-intolerant, go ahead and use melted dairy-free butter (vegan butter) or melted coconut oil instead.
Eggs: Eggs are necessary to bind the ingredients together as well as to give the batter rise, so make sure you add them in.
Apple Cider Vinegar: Apple cider vinegar helps to create a more acidic environment that will react with the baking powder to make the batter rise more.
Greek Yogurt: Greek yogurt adds moisture to this flaxseed almond flour bread. If you are lactose-intolerant, go ahead and use unsweetened dairy-free yogurt instead.
Sesame Seeds: I like using white sesame seeds as a nice color contrast to the brown flaxseeds.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 35 mins
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baking
Thank you for sharing your recipe. I can’t wait to try it. And thanks for sharing your perspective. It’s a good perspective to have.
Glad to have you here Rose! Hope you enjoy this flax almond bread 🙂
hi Felicia! I recently found your page because I just stopped consuming gluten and this week I made your oat honey bread. it was so easy and good! I was so happy because I found your page and some of the recipes I’m seeing don’t require a lot of kneading. i am certainly NOT a baker. I just have a question about this recipe. can I use gluten free all purpose flour instead of the plain tapioca, only cause I already have that and it has xantham gum already? thanks for your help and have a blessed day!
Hi Ginette, so happy to hear from you and thank you for your kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed the honey oat bread (it’s very popular on the blog)! You won’t have the worry about kneading on this blog – most GF recipes don’t require kneading (that’s more for developing gluten in normal bread flour, and since this is a gluten-free blog, no kneading needed!).
As for this flax almond bread, you can definitely swap out the tapioca flour and use GF all-purpose flour instead!
Hope you enjoy it as much as you enjoyed the honey oat bread 🙂 Happy weekend!
xx,
Felicia
I love your gratefulness! I also feel so blessed. Dying to try this bread but I can’t have eggs. Any substitutes? I usually do flax or chia eggs but
Hi Lynne! Thanks so much for being here 🙂 Gratefulness is such an important part of appreciating life, don’t you think? Regarding the eggs, since this flax almond bread uses 4 eggs in total, I would say to replace them with acquafaba or Bob’s red mill egg replacer. Not sure if flax or chia eggs will work since this recipe requires quite a few eggs.
Great recipe, thank you! I added a banana – just because – and served it with goat cheese and/or strawberry jam. It was a hit!
Hi Jennie! So happy to hear that you enjoyed this! Adding the banana is a great idea, and serving it with goat cheese and jam sounds amazing!
That sounds delicious! I’m going to make this bread TODAY! I am so tired of dry tasteless gluten free breads
offered in grocery stores for absorbitant prices.
Hope you enjoy this Carol!
Killer bread ! Just made it, cooled it and tasted it. Can’t wait to make a big fat Virgina ham and cheese now. 😬. Thank you Felicia.
YAY! So happy to hear that Muppet. That Virginia ham and cheese sounds amazing, might have to try one myself!
Wow! It seems we are on the same line
of thought. I ‘m going to look for that
book. I m glad I found your bread recipe_
It sounds like the one I’ve been looking for.
De
Hi De! Glad you enjoy this bread recipe! Hope to see you around the blog again sometime soon!
So I Can’t have yogurt or coconut. What would you suggest to use in place of the coconut cream or the yogurt?
Hi Wanda, you can use the same amount of cashew-based cream/yogurt if you can take cashews.
Thank you for your beautiful blogs, also your glutenfree receipes are amazing,
I can’t have wheat so bread is off limits for me until I discovered your receipes?
Thank you so much, wishing you a very happy new year Mary 🎉
Hi Mary, I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks for your kind words, and I’m glad you enjoy the blog and the recipes. Happy new year and hope to see you around the blog again sometime soon!
Looks delicious. My daughter is gluten free so I will definitely try this one. I’m doing keto. Do you have the carbs calculated for this? Did I over look it?
Hi Susan, unfortunately I don’t have the carbs calculated for this. But I believe you and your daughter are going to enjoy it!
Hi
Thank you from writing from the heart. It was something I truly needed today. It is so easy to get caught up in life demands. We forget to appreciate the small things in life that in reality are the biggest things. I have been blessed to married to my best friend for 27 years an have two grown children we have raised but lately I have been down cause of small issues. My health and I am not where I really want to be living at but at the same time I am happy. It just seems like a constant uphill climb but we forgot to look around to see who is climbing it with us. Please keep blogging. I am guilty I usually just jump to the recipe but I truly enjoyed reading your blog an I will make that bread today with a smile on my face.
Smiles
Hi Nora, thank you so much for your kind words.
It touches me to hear from you, and my heart goes out to you during these times that you feel down. I know it’s not always easy to see the bright side of things (even being a natural optimist), and there are difficult days that makes the light at the end of the tunnel seem farther away. Hang in there, I hope your health gets better bit by bit, and that you feel better soon. Please know I’m thinking of you!
Also, thanks for writing again and sharing your thoughts, it always makes me feel more connected to others 🙂
Happy 2022 to you, and may this year be the best year yet!
xx,
Felicia
Thank you Felicia
I made that wonderful bread of yours even my picky 22 year old son just loved it. It will definitely is being added to my recipe book.
Smiles
Nora
Awww, it makes me so happy to hear that Nora!
Thank you for sharing, glad you and your son enjoyed this flax almond bread 🙂
Hope to see you around again soon!
xx
felicia
I truly enjoyed reading your post. My husband and I have been married for over 45 yrs. We are praying about selling our home and moving. Insecurities and some fear fills my mind at the thought. After reading your blog it reminded me that our security and joy are not in things but in God our Father first and then the people and relationships around us. I look forward to making your recipe and enjoy the simple things of life.
Hi Rachel, thank you for your sweet note. I can imagine how difficult it must be to sell your home and move after such a long time living there. Trust me, I’ve moved so many times in the last 10 years, but each move still makes me worry but like you said, God is in control!
The arrowroot powder has a lot of carbs in it, any substitute for it with less carbs? Thanks.
Hi Jane, it’s not easy to find a less starchy substitute for arrowroot powder given that few flours are similar in terms of the characteristic. The closest substitute would be tapioca starch but it also has quite a few carbs.
Thanks so much for the blog. I have been strengthened and encouraged by your comforting words. I truly needed to read your blog today. Thanks again.
Mary, I can’t tell you how much your words mean to me – I am so glad that you feel encouraged by the blog as that’s what I hope for everytime I write a post. Sending love!
Can I use buckwheat flour instead of tapioca flour?
Hi vic, you should be able to, although I don’t know what proportions exactly you should use for the substitute. Let me know how it goes if u make it!
You know I was so full of complaints these past few days, and stress, that I also forgot about all the things I have to be thankful for. I have wonderful friends and family, and a roof over my head and good food on the table, and as frustrating as life can get, I should always be thankful for all the love I am surrounded by. 🙂 Your posts always brighten my day, Felicia, because they remind me to smile! That, and I can’t help but smile and drool over this grain free almond bread! Cut me a giant slice to have with my coffee for sure! <3
Jess, your comment completely made my day! I love knowing that what I write reminds you to smile and that it makes you happy, even if it’s just for a moment. I think, that’s true satisfaction for me!! Sending a large slice of virtual almond bread your way!! and plenty of love!!
Felicia: cómo siempre… re lindo lo que escribís!!! Y estoy muy tentada con estas última receta, el sábado compro los ingredientes!!
Hoy cociné un pan de miel pero no logro darle el punto. Siempre me queda un poco crudo adentro. Ya lo voy a lograr, porque me encanta. Eso sí, tiene harina de trigo.
María! Gracias por leer siempre! Ojala que te guste este pan! Tene en cuenta que como es una receta que no lleva harina, la textura obiamente va a ser distincta al pan que estamos acostumbrado. Pero me encantó este pan igual! Avisame si salío bien o no!! Un beso!
p.d. hay un truco facil de chequear si la parte adentro del pan queda bien (por ahí ya lo sabes!). Uso un toothpick (escavadientes) y pincho el pan in el medio. En general, cuando el toothpick sale limpio, ya esta el pan. Si no sale limpio, deja el pan en el horno unos 5 minutos más y fijate de nuevo! 🙂
This is a very thought provoking post and I’m glad to have found you again. 🙂 What a beautiful almond bread and yes, life is good and sometimes we just need to step back and take a look around our home and feel the love. Hello Felicia.
HELLO Seana! I’ve missed you! thanks so much for dropping by and leaving your comment. I hope you’ve been well? Sending plenty of love!