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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. Â 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. Â 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.
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
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
- 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.
- For best results, wrap bread tightly and store in the refrigerator.
- If you would like to make this recipe dairy free, substitute the sour cream with apple sauce.
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Gluten Free Banana Bread Recipe
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
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Lora says
Hi Leigh Anne, I was planning to make this in my bread machine. How much mixing, resting, & baking time should I set up it to? Thanks!
Leigh Anne says
Lora, I have never used a bread machine for this recipe so I really don’t know. Can you do non yeast breads in a bread machine?
Samantha Rosenberg says
Love this banana bread! I have made it several times and it is a favorite in my home! Have even started to sub creme fraiche for the sour cream. It’s so good! Thanks for this recipe.
Leigh Anne says
Glad you love it too!! Thanks for letting me know.
Michelle says
I’ve had this pinned for a while and finally got around to making it today. Boy, am I glad I did! This is amazing!! I had Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 GF flour on hand, so that is what I used. Definitely a keeper! Thank you so much!!
Leigh Anne says
So glad you loved it too! Thanks for letting me know.
Laurie Smith says
Even my husband and son loved it! And, they both cringe at tye idea of gluten free!
Leigh Anne says
So glad you loved it too. If you dont’ tell people this is gluten free, they’ll never know!
Elva says
Thank you for sharing get this recipe. I modified it in order to cut back on the sugar and I added pumpkin puree to it. Oh my! This was so delicious.