Chocolate Banana Bread
(from Cindy’s recipe box)
Source: Chicago tribune, Gluten-Free Girl(check out her Web site at glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com)
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Categories: Brunch, bread, gluten-free
Ingredients
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
- 1/2 cup organic cane sugar
- 1/2 cup turbinado sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 large bananas, mashed
- 1 cup teff flour
- 1/2 cup sweet white rice flour
- 1/2 cup sorghum or brown rice flour
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 cup almond meal
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
Directions
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Heat oven to 350 degrees.
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Combine butter and cane and turbinado sugars in a large bowl; beat with a mixer on medium speed just until creamed. Beat in eggs, sour cream and vanilla; stir in mashed bananas.
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Combine the teff flour, rice flour, sorghum flour, tapioca flour, almond meal, cocoa powder, cinnamon, xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
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Fold the flour mixture into the wet batter with a spatula, 1/4 cup at a time, until everything is just mixed together.
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Scrape the dough into a buttered and floured (with white rice flour) 9-inch round cake pan.
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Cover the surface of the dough with the demerara sugar.
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Bake until a knife inserted gently into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
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Cool in the pan 5-10 minutes; unmold on a wire rack.