Gluten Free Banana Bread
This easy gluten free banana bread only needs 7 simple ingredients and is a great way to use up blackening, overripe bananas! Enjoy it as it is or customise with chopped nuts or chocolate chips.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 ripe bananas (approx 350g with skin on)
- 125 g butter (melted)
- 150 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 250 g plain gluten free flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 0.25 tsp xanthan gum (optional, if your flour blend does NOT already contain this)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180C / Fan 160C / Gas Mark 4. Line a 2lb loaf tin and set to one side.
- 2
Peel the bananas and add to a small bowl. Mash using a fork and set to one side - a few lumps are fine.
- 3
Add the butter, sugar and vanilla extract to a large mixing bowl and beat together with an electric whisk until combined.
- 4
Add the mashed bananas, egg, gluten free flour, baking powder and xanthan gum to the mixing bowl. Beat again with the electric whisk until just combined.
- 5
Pour the mixture into the lined baking tin, smooth out the top and place in the oven. Bake for 50 minutes - 1 hour until golden, risen and a skewer in the centre comes out clean. Cool on a rack before slicing.