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RECIPE: Dairy and Gluten Free Banana Bread

I've not always been a big fan of banana bread. I've tried a few recipes, but have found some of them to be too stodgy and others just a bit too 'banana-rey' if you know what I mean? I love the sweetness you get from an overripe banana, but I don't want it to be so overpowering it tastes like an old school McDonalds banana milk shake! (Yikes do you remember these??)

Anyway, after making copious amounts of my banana cookies with overripe bananas, I decided to try one final time at banana bread... and it turned out lovely! I have had a play and come up with my own 'adapted' recipe and it seems to work the best for me. I like to use 2 bananas for this cake, but you use 1 and a half if you want even less banana taste.

WHAT YOU NEED:


250g gluten free self-raising flour (I like to use the Dove Farm one)

1/2 tsp bicarb of soda

115g coconut sugar

1/4 tsp pink salt

2 beaten eggs

50g coconut oil melted and cooled

200ml coconut milk

2 mashed overripe bananas


METHOD:

  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and grease and line a loaf tin

  • Sift the flour, gingerbread spice mix, bicarb, coconut sugar and salt into a large bowl (I like to sift the sugar to get out any lumps, anything that doesn't 'make it through' the sieve, I just then stir in).

  • In a blender, combine the eggs, coconut oil, coconut milk and banana (you can beat these together with a fork, but I find if they are blended you don't get random squishy lumps of banana in your cake).

  • Add the banana mix to the flour mix and stir to combine.

  • Pour into the loaf tin and bake in the oven for around 45 mins or until a skewer comes out clean and it is golden on top.

  • Allow to cool in the tin for 10 mins or so and then turn out onto a wire rack to completely cool.

  • Serve with coconut ice cream, frozen berries and cacao nibs.

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I did. As there are only 2 of us in our household, I actually sliced the cake up after a couple of days and put it in the freezer. This way I can treat myself to a slice whenever I fancy!


Thanks so much for reading,


Emmaline

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