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Gluten Free Banana Bread

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This will be the best banana bread you have ever made. It is moist, tender and gluten free. You can also make it dairy free.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Like I always say when I post a gluten free recipe, don’t discount this recipe because you aren’t gluten free.  I am sure you know at least one or two people that are gluten free and wouldn’t it be fun to take them a treat they could eat!

I have shared with The Best Banana Bread recipe before – it’s an old family favorite and many, many of you who have tried it agree with me that it is truly THE BEST banana bread. So moist!

So over the Christmas break I decided to try gluten free banana bread and replace the regular flour in our favorite banana bread recipe with my gluten free flour mix and it worked beautifully.  In fact you will be hard pressed to tell this bread is gluten free!

The bread is light, moist and doesn’t have the grittiness that a lot of gluten free baked items do.

Gluten Free Banana Bread

Ingredients Needed

  • Sugar
  • Oil
  • Eggs
  • Bananas, ripe
  • Sour Cream
  • Pure Vanilla Extract
  • Gluten Free Flour Mix, homemade mix or your favorite store bought brand
  • Baking Soda
  • Salt
  • Xanthan Gum
Gluten Free Banana Bread

How to Make Gluten Free Banana Bread

  • Grease and flour bottom only of a loaf pan.
  • Beat together sugar and oil.
  • Add eggs, bananas, sour cream and vanilla; blend well
  • Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off
  • Add flour, baking soda and salt and stir juntil dry ingredients are just moistened.
  • Pour into prepared pan
  • Bake at 350 degrees F until toothpick inserted in center comes clean, about for 50-60 minutes
  • Remove from oven and allow bread to cook for 5 minutes.
  • Remove bread from pan and place on wire rack to cook completely.

Tips from leigh Anne

  1. I use my own gluten free flour mix recipe for this bread. It contains coconut flour, gluten free oat flour, rice flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum and cornstarch. If you are unable to eat any of these ingredients, you can use Bob’s Red Mill gluten free flour mix or your preferred brand.
  2. For best results, wrap bread tightly and store in the refrigerator.
  3. If you would like to make this recipe dairy free, substitute the sour cream with apple sauce.

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4.95 from 17 votes

Gluten Free Banana Bread Recipe

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
The perfect moist and delicious gluten free banana bread.
serves: 8 slices
Prep:15 minutes
Cook:50 minutes
Total:1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas
  • 1/2 cup sour cream or applesauce
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cup gluten free flour mix
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp xanthan gum

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 350 degrees
  • Grease and flour bottom only of a loaf pan (or use 3 small loaf pans)
  • In large bowl, beat together sugar and oil
  • Add eggs, bananas, sour cream and vanilla; blend well
  • Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off
  • Add flour, baking soda and salt; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened
  • Pour into prepared pan
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes (about 40 minutes for smaller loaf pan) or until toothpick inserted in center comes clean
  • Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan
  • Cool completely
  • Wrap tightly and store in refrigerator

Tips & Notes:

recipe makes 1 loaf

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 336kcal (17%) Carbohydrates: 47g (16%) Protein: 4g (8%) Fat: 16g (25%) Saturated Fat: 1g (6%) Cholesterol: 41mg (14%) Sodium: 304mg (13%) Potassium: 94mg (3%) Fiber: 3g (13%) Sugar: 30g (33%) Vitamin A: 71IU (1%) Vitamin C: 2mg (2%) Calcium: 21mg (2%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Bread
Cuisine:American
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  1. Tessa says

    I just tried this recipe and it is by far the best I’ve tasted. Even my husband enjoyed it and he couldn’t tell it was gluten free! Yeah! It was a home run. Thanks so much for the yummy recipe!! Can’t wait to try more of your gluten free recipes now! 🙂

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  2. Molly Plumb says

    If your GF flour mix already includes xanthum gum, do you still add 1 tsp? I do my own GF flour mix at home from a GF cookbook that turns out about 4 1/2 C GF flour with a scant 2 tsp xanthum gum.

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  4. Melanie says

    Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
    I tried this yesterday and am so happy with not only how delicious it is, but how easy it was to make. My flour mix has Xanthum gum in it, so I omitted it and it was still great!

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  5. Tiffany Dominguez says

    This recipe looks awesome! However, I’ve never used Xanthan gum before, how do I incorporate it in this recipe?
    Thanks, Tiffany.

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