I’m not allergic to gluten, and I’m not even particularly into this whole gluten-free movement either (I think wheat flour is one of the best things in the universe), but I do understand how frustrating it can be not to have any decent cake to eat.
So in a grand gesture of altruism, I have developed a gluten-free cake that is quite delicious, if I do say so myself. This version uses coconut flour, and everyone’s favourite kitchen staple, overripe bananas. I genuinely love this cake and sometimes make it just because. I hope you all enjoy it!
Ingredients
GLUTEN-FREE BANANA BREAD:
~350g ripe banana, peeled weight
85g coconut flour
85g caster sugar
6 medium eggs
pinch of salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
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COCONUT BUTTERCREAM:
75g butter, softened
150g icing sugar
A dollop of coconut butter/coconut dream/sweetened coconut cream
Coconut flavouring, to taste
Desiccated coconut, to decorate
Instructions
GLUTEN-FREE BANANA BREAD:
Preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºc fan and line a 1lb loaf tin with baking parchment.
Mash the bananas thoroughly, then add the rest of the ingredients. Use a whisk to stir until you have a smooth batter.
Pour the batter into the lined loaf pan and bake for about 50 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
COCONUT BUTTERCREAM:
Beat the butter until pale and fluffy. Add the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
Add the coconut and flavourings to taste. Decorate with desicated coconut if desired.
2 comments
This sounds delicious! I love banana bread and am also sadly gluten free. Do you have any idea what the conversions would be for a metric-clueless American with no scale, who uses cups and teaspoons? And yes, I know we should be using metric ?
Oh goodness! No, not without googling it all, sorry! There are some websites out there that will convert various flours/sugars between cups and grams though. If I find time, maybe I can add some kind of conversion tables in my site – I’ll have a look into it x