Experience Nutrition: Extra Bananas in Your Kitchen? Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread WOW!!!

Enjoy this incredible vegan, gluten-free banana bread with walnuts, dehydrated citrus, and edible flowers. This banana bread is so delicious all I can say is Wow! I hope you have the opportunity to enjoy mindfully preparing this bread and enjoying it as a breakfast break or snack. – Melanie Albert

Enjoy the Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread Video…for the step-by-step cooking process.

Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread Recipe

12 Servings

Simple Ingredients

• Wet Ingredients
  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil, liquid
  • 1 cup coconut sugar
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Dry Ingredients
  • 1 ¾ cups gluten-free flour (blend of sweet rice flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, sorghum flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum)
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • 1 tsp freshly ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
  • ¾ cup walnut pieces

• Garnish
  • Edible flowers and dehydrated grapefruit and blood orange slices.

Simple Steps

• Mise en Place
  • Gather your ingredients and organize your mise en place – get everything in place before your start cooking.

• Bake the Cake
  • Preheat oven at 350 degrees F.

• Process Wet Ingredients
  • Place sliced bananas (about 3 cups) in food processor.
  • Process until smooth.
  • Taste. Add extra banana if desire sweeter taste.
  • Liquefy the coconut oil by placing oil in small bowl in a larger bowl of hot water.
  • Stream in coconut oil. Process again.
  • Add coconut sugar, apple cider vinegar, and vanilla extract to the food processor.
  • Process until smooth.

• Mix Dry & Wet Ingredients
  • In large bowl, place flour, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
  • Stir until mixed.
  • Pour the banana mixture into the bowl.
  • Fold the banana mixture into the flour mixture, until well mixed.
  • Fold in walnut pieces.

• Bake the Banana Bread
  • Pour the batter into a parchment-lined pan, 9” x 7”.
  • Place several walnuts on top of cake.
  • Bake for 40-45 minutes.
  • Cake is ready when toothpick comes out dry.

• Plate and Enjoy
  • Garnish with dehydrated grapefruit and blood orange slices, and edible flowers.
  • Enjoy for breakfast or a snack.

By Melanie Albert, Plant-Based Cooking Leader, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition in Phoenix, Arizona. Award-winning cookbook author, speaker, corporate wellness, team building, retreat leader, and caterer.

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