Gluten-Free Vegan Butter Less Sticky Banana Bread is as the name says, a sticky cake made with gluten-free flours, sweeten with demerara and honey.
I am not into baking gluten-free or vegan or butterless. I am always for moderation and won't mind trying everything within my vegetarian diet. However, with the theme being Banana Bread, I wanted to try my hand at using the different flours I have stocked for various other dishes.
I measured out all the ingredients and went with Demara Sugar, with specific thoughts of using 1/4 of a cup, and couldn't understand why I ended up 3/4th cup. The cake turned out very sticky and very sweet. I had a tough time even slicing it. I had to continue baking for another 10 mins. Then had to microwave for 2 to 3 mins before handling it.
I wanted to ditch it and make another Banana Bread, trust me, I still have so many to try. However, surprisingly, Hubby Dear loved it. It is very hard to please him when it comes to cakes, as he likes hard cakes. And we are eternally in search of soft cakes. Whenever I give him cakes, he says he only remembers cake from the bakery he still remembers eating during his childhood.
He always says cakes have to be hard and firm. Not the soft, melt-in-the-mouth texture. I am open to all ideas and especially when it comes to pleasing one's taste, I seek nothing more. So this cake gets to be recorded. If you are the kind who can't take in sticky, sweet, hard cake, then please just skip through the recipe and enjoy the pictures.
This one is for Day 6, the final day of week 2 of Bakeathon, where I took upon myself to make different Banana Bread. Other Banana Bread you can try Eggless Banana Bread, Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
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Step By Step Pictures for making Gluten Free Banana Bread
Gluten Free Vegan Butter Less Banana Sticky Bread
How to make Banana Bread
Dry roast the oats, allow to cool, and grind to a smooth flour.
Place the almonds on the hot pan for 5 mins, then grind it to a smooth flour.
In a bowl, add the ground flour along with rice flour and buckwheat flour.
Add the demerara sugar and honey, beat well.
Add banana puree, oil and combine everything together.
Then add baking powder, baking soda.
Followed by chopped walnuts and oats
Preheat the oven to 185 C
Transfer the batter to a loaf pan and bake the cake for 40 mins.
Notes:
Check if done, mine was sticky at 40 mins, continued baking for another 10 mins.
However the cake was sticky because of the demerara sugar, so had to microwave for 3 to 4 mins.
The cake will turn hard once it cools down. And it will be sticky.
*You can add 1/4 cup Demara Sugar, I wasn't sure what made me add 3/4 cup since I actually was thinking about 1/4 cup only.
I noted both because if you end up liking that sticky texture Demara gives, you can use that.
Recipe
Gluten Free Vegan Butter Less Banana Sticky Bread
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Almond Meal
- 1/4 cup Oats Meal
- 1/4 cup Rice Flour
- 1/4 cup Buckwheat Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/4 cup Walnuts
- 2 tbsp Oats
- 1/2 cup Banana Puree
- 1/4 cup Honey
- 3/4 cup Demara Sugar*
Instructions
- Dry roast the oats, allow to cool and grind to a smooth flour.
- Place the almonds on the hot pan for 5 mins, then grind it to a smooth flour.
- In a bowl, add the ground flour along with rice flour and buckwheat flour.
- Add the demara sugar and honey, beat well.
- Add banana puree, oil and combine everything together.
- Then add baking powder, baking soda.
- Followed by chopped walnuts and oats
- Preheat the oven to 185 C
- Transfer the batter to a loaf pan and bake the cake for 40 mins.
Notes
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vaishalisabnani says
I don’t mind a sweet and hard cake , but never tried a sticky one ! Glad at least your hubby relished it , so must say even mistakes can be good and make people happy .
Suma Gandlur says
I am open to anything when it comes to sweet dishes. In my book the recipe is a hit if one person in my home enjoys it.
Priya Suresh says
Gluten free vegan sticky bread sounds fabulous. All the flours went in it makes this bake more interesting. Indeed an excellent bread.
Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth says
First of all there are so many good ingredients going into that cake... and I love the combination of honey and sugar... like you I also feel 3/4 cup would have been sickeningly sweet! But if the husband enjoyed the sticky cake, then surely it must have been good. Like you say, we always look for fluffy ones that we forget that there are other textures too... 😀
gayathriraani says
That is a delicious gf cake for sure Valli. I love the soft and moist cakes than the dry ones and I am drooling looking at that amazing slice.
Pavani says
That is a very interesting banana bread with gluten free flours. This soft and moist banana bread sounds just perfect with some chocolate sauce on top 🙂
Sharmila says
Roasting Oats for a cake is a wonderful idea. And i should say, comparing all other versions of banana bread, this one seems so yum!!
Nalini says
Interesting cake Valli,kids like mouth melting soft cakes.Whereas I like have slightly firm cake.
Sharmila Kingsly says
Beautiful and love this.. Can we use the same recipe to make dates sticky pudding ?
Varada says
Your experiments with banana bread are very interesting. I am not a fan of those soft cakes especially those softened with sugar syrup. I would take a firm cake anyday
chefmireille says
what a unique recipe - sticky bread must have been scrumptious
FoodTrails says
Interesting!! How a minute change in the recipe makes way for a new dessert or cake!! I will love to call this pudding cake!! Also loved the use of multiple flours and roasting oats before adding!!
Veena Krishnakumar says
this is interesting valli. You are tempting me to try this
Priya Srinivasan says
wow valli interesting combination of ingredients there!!! Sticky bread, ohh, i would love to try this!!! 🙂
Renu Agrawal Dongre says
What a healthy dose of gluten free flours in there. Love the sticky bread, yum.
Pavani says
The sticky cake looks so delicious and moist. Love the honey and sugar combination.
Annapurnaz says
Omg! the list of ingredients show what a variety of ingredients have gone into this making it healthy and delicious too