Gluten-Free Banana Bread

4.82 from 38 votes

Gluten-Free Banana Bread

The easiest, most delicious, foolproof banana bread recipe you will ever make. This banana bread is loaded with flavor, has a beautiful texture and is so easy to make you will wonder why everyone doesn't make banana bread this way. This recipe makes two loaves, but you can use the slider to adjust the serving size down to 10 if you only want to make one loaf.

Prep Time10

Cook Time1

Total Time1 10

Course: Breakfast, brunch, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American, gluten free

Keyword: Banana Bread, Banana Muffins

Servings: slices

Calories: 280kcal

Author: Alina Eisenhauer

Ingredients

378 grams 1:1 gluten-free flour blend
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
6 bananas (ripe) approx. 600 grams mashed
448 grams sugar
2 large eggs
112 grams/ml avocado oil (or canola oil)
2 teaspoons vanilla
170 grams walnuts, roughly chopped optional
170 grams chips - chocolate, peanut butter, butterscotch, etc.) optional

Instructions

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Put the bananas and sugar in another large bowl. Mash with a potato masher or a fork, until there are no pieces bigger than the size of a pea. Add the eggs, mixing well to incorporate. Stir in the oil and vanilla, mixing well.
Stir in the flour mixture, a third at a time, until just combined. Do not over mix.
Set the batter aside to rest for 30 minutes.
If using walnuts, stir in one cup with the one cup of chips, and reserve the remaining half a cup walnuts to sprinkle on top of the loaves.
Spray two 8½x-4 ½-inch loaf pans, and divide batter evenly between them. Bake for about an hour or until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean. I usually check on them, and rotate the pans after the first 30 minutes.
If baking as muffins, baking time is reduced to approximately 25 minutes.

Notes

If you want to lower the amount of refined sugar in this recipe, use very ripe bananas and replace the sugar with 1½ cups of raw coconut sugar or maple sugar. The bread will have a slightly richer, molasses-like hint to it.

There are endlesss possibilities for customizing this banana bread to your liking. Try adding chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, different types of nuts, shredded coconut etc.

This recipe also makes great muffins.

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