Once I let you know the bananas on our countertop can’t ripen quick sufficient to assist our Gluten Free Banana Bread baking behavior, I’m not exaggerating.

My children devour this mushy, squishy, and comfy fast bread quicker than I could make it, and I’m not complaining because it’s decrease in fats and added sugars in comparison with typical quick-breads.

Overripe bananas naturally sweeten every mushy and tender slice of this easy gluten free banana bread recipe, that’s dairy-free too!

Elements Wanted

Raid the pantry for the gluten free baking necessities you’ll must whip up this moist and tender gluten free banana bread. Right here’s what you’ll want:

• Bananas: for the very best taste and sweetness, let your bananas get uncomfortably brown – see beneath for a photograph of how mine usually look earlier than mashing and baking.
• Gluten free baking flour: use your go-to mix for cooking and baking. I often attain for Bob’s Purple Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour or King Arthur Gluten Free Measure for Measure Flour for this specific recipe.
• Sugars: a mix of granulated sugar and brown sugar make sure the banana bread is tender, moist, and candy, although not overly so.
• Oil: I grew up making fast breads with vegetable or canola oil which provides them further tenderness in comparison with butter.
• Eggs: present construction to the gluten free banana bread.
• Baking soda + baking powder: give the banana bread a powerful raise you don’t typically discover with gluten free fast breads, which may lean on the dense aspect.
• Cinnamon + vanilla extract: provides a number of cozy taste. So good!

Gluten Free Banana Bread Baking Ideas

This recipe is INCREDIBLY straightforward, however right here’s some ideas to remember when whipping up a batch of Gluten Free Banana Bread in your kitchen:

1. Wait a day. As with most gluten free baked items, the gluten free banana bread is greatest eaten beginning on day 2. The bread noticeably softens whereas the construction concurrently turns into extra sturdy.
2. Tremendous ripe. Since this recipe doesn’t include a ton of sugar, be certain your bananas are VERY ripe, indicating they’re at peak sweetness. We’re on the lookout for a number of spots and brown areas – no inexperienced by any means.
3. Scoop and stage. Spoon the gluten free baking flour mix into your measuring cup over a bowl then scrape off the highest with the again of a knife. Scooping the measuring cup straight into the bag of flour compacts it into the cup which may create a dry and dense banana bread.
4. Combine it Up. We’re purists relating to banana bread, however be at liberty so as to add 1/2 cup combine ins to the batter earlier than baking reminiscent of chocolate chips, or chopped walnuts or pecans.
5. Use frozen bananas. We at all times have a bag of frozen bananas within the freezer to make Banana Good Cream (one other one in every of my child’s obsessions!) and you should use frozen bananas instead of contemporary on this recipe. Thaw the frozen bananas within the microwave, contained in the fridge, or on the countertop then mash, measure, and use the identical as contemporary within the banana bread.

Alright, are you able to bake!?

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Make Gluten Free Banana Bread

Step 1: Mix the moist elements.

Begin by including vegetable or canola oil (or one other neutral-flavored oil) and each brown and granulated sugars to the bowl of an electrical mixer, or a big glass bowl if utilizing a hand-held mixer, then combine to mix, 30 seconds.

Subsequent add eggs separately, mixing till simply mixed earlier than including the subsequent egg.

Step 2: Mash the bananas.

Like I stated – uncomfortably brown. Ack! We’re on the lookout for a number of “cheetah spots” and areas of brown. NO GREEN!

Unpeel 2-3 massive bananas right into a bowl then mash them up with a fork and measure out 1 cup.

Step 3: Add the mashed banana and dry elements.

To the blending bowl add the mashed banana and vanilla extract then combine to mix.

In a separate bowl, stir collectively gluten free baking flour mix, baking powder, baking soda, and salt then add to the moist elements in two batches, mixing till simply mixed earlier than including the subsequent batch.

Step 4: Bake the banana bread.

Scoop the batter right into a nonstick sprayed 9×5″ loaf pan then bake for 50-60 minutes or till a tooth decide inserted into the middle comes out clear, or has just some crumbs once you pull it out.

Step 5: Cool utterly.

Let the banana bread sit within the pan for 20 minutes then run a knife across the outdoors and switch it out onto a slicing board to chill utterly.

Like I stated, gluten free fast breads, particularly, profit from a day of relaxation earlier than digging in, however my children and I’ve by no means managed to attend even an hour to dig right into a contemporary loaf of gluten free banana bread!

Retailer and Freeze

• retailer: place the cooled banana bread inside a gallon-size Ziplock bag or storage container with an hermetic lid then retailer on the counter for as much as 5 days.
• freeze: wrap the cooled banana bread in saran wrap then place inside a gallon-size freezer Ziplock bag and freeze for as much as 3 months. Thaw within the fridge or on the counter then slice and eat.

I hope you like each crumb of this tender, moist, and comfy Gluten Free Banana Bread recipe. It’s straightforward and scrumptious sufficient to warrant making each single week – you simply want the overripe banana provide to assist the behavior. 😉

Good luck, and revel in!

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photographs by Ashley McLaughlin

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