Christmas Banana Bread
Gluten free, Dairy free Christmas Banana Bread
Gluten Free Banana Bread is for Christmas! You may have noticed my family has a love of banana bread! This recipe is ideal for Christmas and the glaze is worth the effort as it really brings a wonderful Christmas finish to this gluten free, and dairy free banana bread.
I didn’t work fast enough to glaze this cake as the family had already started cutting into it before I could decorate it! Next time I will need to put a sign on it saying ‘Work in Progress, Hands Off!’
We hope you enjoy this gluten free, dairy free banana bread.
Ingredients:
175 g gluten free self raising-flour or our General All Purpose Gluten Free Flour
50 g almond flour
2 tsps. baking powder
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs
100 g caster sugar
100 g light muscovado sugar
2 ripe bananas
1 tsp vanilla extract
125 ml vegetable oil
1/2 cup of dried cranberries
1/2 cup of walnuts (chopped roughly)
1/2 large orange grated zest and juice in the cake (approx 60 ml)
Ingredients: Optional Runny Icing Glaze
1/2 large orange grated zest and juice (approx 60 ml)
250 g icing sugar
Sprinkles
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160° Fan / 350°F / Gas Mark 4 and line the loaf tin.
In a mixer or bowl add all the ingredients of eggs, sugar, bananas, flavouring and oil and whisk together.
Then stir the dry ingredients in until mixed.
Transfer the cake mix into the prepared loaf tin and place in oven for 50 minutes.
Bake until golden and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out dry.
Let cool completely in tin before transferring to a wire rack.
Once the cake is cool mix up your icing glaze. Add more icing sugar if you would like a thicker topping. This was more than enough glaze for this cake if made in a loaf tin. Alternatively make as a tray bake and cut into individual squares before coating each one in the glaze and then sprinkles. They look wonderful at Christmas!
Additional Notes:
Make this into a tray bake but remember to reduce the cooking time (dependent on size of tin).
Add extra spice if you wish. This is the level of spice I use for my children, but if I was making this just for myself I would add more!
Equipment Used:
Loaf tin (approximately 21 cm by 11 cm)
KitchenAid Stand Mixer
Spatula.
