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Gluten-Free Banana Bread

Today my Little One is being extra cheeky & extra curious.

Quite a bit like Curious Georgeactually.

He’s getting into everything!

Oh! See what I mean?

There are those darling monkey hands reaching for a banana.  Always up to something, he is.

Not quite unlike his parents!

This afternoon, I decided to bake something simple and easy – to take my mind off the car. Still waiting to hear just how bad it is.  Can it be worse than the transmission?


I find banana bread is pretty straight forward and I often switch up the recipe
to suit the flours & ingredients I have on hand – the one constant… well, bananas of course and vanilla.  Vanilla draws out the sweetness in bananas.  You only need a little bit and because of vanilla, you will use less sugar or none at all.

This really made the perfect snack today.  It’s a dense, moist bread.
Not overly sweet, comforting and tasty. I enjoyed it with a glass of unsweetened chocolate almond milk.

Yum!

Definitely did the trick in clearing my head.

Baking has a way of doing that for me. The action of creating a recipe, choosing
ingredients, mixing, preparing and a happy end result.

Does it do that for you too?

What clears your head? I’d love to know.

xo Emily


Gluten-Free Banana Bread
Serves 8


1 cup of buckwheat flour
1/2 cup of All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour
2 tsp of baking powder
2 Tbsp tapioca flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 packed cup mashed bananas
1/4 cup organic sugar

3/4 cup apple sauce
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup of Hemp Hearts
or walnuts

Mix flours, baking powder & cinnamon together.  In another bowl, mix mashed bananas, sugar, apple sauce, olive oil and vanilla – pour into dry ingredients and mix well.  Add in the hemp hearts or walnuts (or dark chocolate!)

Pour into lightly greased bread loaf pan. Slice half a banana in half and chop thin slices to place along top of the bread, sprinkle with a little sugar and hemp hearts. Bake at 350F for 50 minutes. Let cool for 20-30 minutes before removing from the pan.  Enjoy with chocolate almond milk…mmmmmm!

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17 Comments

  1. Yummy! Love the Curious George book too. Dancing and singing around the apartment is a sure way to clear my head….. getting physical and silly helps make those worrying thoughts disappear and leaves me in a much happier state of mind.

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  4. we seem to have many things in common 🙂
    id definitely try one of your tasty recipes asap 🙂

    thanks for subscribing,
    Love , Juls xx

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  11. I love your blog –
    the photos are so beautiful and the food looks so appetizing. I hope you get your car fixed out, don’t worry about it… when I want to clear my head, I listen to some really good music!

    xx

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  15. you know what, cooking clears my head! when i feel stressed, i go to the kitchen. when i feel happy, i also go to the kitchen. thanks for dropping by my blog too, and i’m following too! hey, just for your ref, one-ingredient banana ice cream with caramelised bananas:

    http://mummyicancook.blogspot.com/2011/08/instant-banana-ice-cream-with-warm.html

    no obligations to go see, i just had this sudden vision of the ice cream on top of your banana bread (:

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