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Banana Bread (Gluten Free)

I love to play around with recipes and see what I can come up with! This is similar to an old favorite of mine. When using spelt flour, I can easily omit the egg and add 1 heaping tsp Energy Egg Replacer. I decided to play with it and see if I couldn't make a delicious gluten free banana bread for my son. Gluten free flours break apart easier, so I did use an egg. Wonderful texture! He loved it and ate half the loaf right out of the oven! (Next time, I may omit the egg and add Energy Egg Replacer and make it Vegan so that my daughter can have some, too!)

***If you do not need it to be gluten free, then just use 1 1/2 cups spelt (or white flour) and omit the sorhum, potato starch, millet flour and xantum gum.

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 cup Sorghum flour

1/2 cup Potato starch

1/2 cup Millet flour

1/2 tsp Xanthum gum

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp  sea salt

1 egg (or 1 1/2 tsp Energy Egg Replacer mixed with 2-3 tbsp warm water. Mix until foamy)

1/2 cup baker's sugar

1/4 cup dark brown sugar

1/3 cup melted butter (or Earth Balance for dairy free)

3 large or 4 medium very ripe bananas

chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix dry ingredients in a small bowl and set aside. Beat bananas in Kitchen Aid (or separate bowl). Add in egg, sugar, melted butter.  Once mixed thoroughly, add in dry ingredients. Mix together thoroughly. Pour into greased bread pan (I use stoneware; works wonderfully!) and sprinkle chocolate chips on top. Bake for about 40 min or until golden brown and knife comes out clean.

Will also make about 12 muffins instead. Bake muffins for about 20-25 minutes.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread

I love pumpkin bread. I also love to bake. Going gluten free in our family has caused some serious disappointment as it is so hard to make a good, gluten free bread! I've been playing around a LOT with flours and have come up with a pretty decent mixture.

The other day, a friend gave me some amazing pumpkin bread (Recipe was from Gooseberry Patch). It was so good! I asked her to give me the recipe so I could play around with it, have a base to start from and figure out how to make a good gluten free pumpkin bread. And by golly, I did it! This bread is soooo good!

I made it with eggs and dairy, but it can be vegan; egg free, dairy free, too, if needed. I made a separate loaf for my daughter without the eggs or dairy. I also have learned to appreciate grape seed oil. It makes gluten free bread so much more moist!

Filling:

8 oz cream cheese, softened (can substitute tofutii cream cheese)

1/3 cup sugar

1 tbsp potato starch

*1 tbsp gluten free flour mix

1 egg (or substitute 1 tsp energy egg replacer with 4 tbsp warm water whipped until frothy)

2 tsp grated orange peel

 

Bread:

1 15 oz can cooked pumpkin

1 cup grape seed oil

2 eggs (or substitute 1 tbsp energy egg replacer with 10 tbsp warm water)

1 ½ cups sugar

1 ½ cups agave nectar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cloves

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp baking soda

1 tsp xanthum gum

*3 cups gluten free flour mix

1/3 cup amaranth flour

 

*(1 c tapioca starch, 1 cup sweet sorghum flour, 1 cup sweet rice flour, ½ potato starch, ½ cup arrowroot starch-mix together store in air tight container)

 

Mix filling ingredients together and set aside.

 

Mix pumpkin, grape seed oil, eggs, sugar and agave nectar together.  Add in the remaining dry ingredients and mix until well blended.

 

Cover bottom of bread pan with pumpkin mix. Spread filling over pumpkin mix, then pumpkin mix over the filling. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 ½ hours or until done. Makes 2 loaves of bread.

Banana Muffins

I've been trying hard to come up with a great banana muffin recipe that is everything free; no substitutions. I don't want it to be grainy or sandy or dry and crumbly. I'd like someone to bite into and not know that it's gluten free. I've been playing around, and by golly, today, I got! And it cooked up perfectly in muffin tins and in a loaf pan! It was so good that my son literally ate HALF THE LOAF in one setting! I'm going to have to go get some more bananas and let them turn brown!

*2 ½ cups gluten free flour mix

½ cup amaranth flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp xanthum gum

6 medium to large  very ripe bananas

1 ½ cups fine baking sugar

2/3 cup grapeseed oil

2 rounded tsp energy egg replacer mixed with 3 tbsp warm water

 

*(1 c tapioca starch, 1 cup sweet sorghum flour, 1 cup sweet rice flour, ½ potato starch, ½ cup arrowroot starch-mix together store in air tight container)

 

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Combine dry ingredients in bowl.  Mix bananas, sugar, grapeseed oil and energy egg mixture together until well blended. Add in flour mixture. Pour into muffin cups and bake until golden brown (about 15 minutes). Also makes good banana bread.

 

Yields 2 dozen muffins or 2 loaves bread.