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Nigella's Gluten Free Banana Cake

A deliciously nutty and chocolatey gluten free banana cake from the pages of Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson.
Course: Desserts
Dietary: Gluten Free, Vegetarian

Equipment

  • loaf tin
  • baking paper

Ingredients

  • 175 grams rice flour
  • 100 grams almond flour
  • 2 teaspoons gluten free baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 3 large very ripe bananas
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 100 gram yogurt at room temperature
  • 2 large eggs at room temperature
  • 125 ml coconut oil melted and cooled
  • 125 grams light brown sugar
  • 150 grams dark chocolate roughly chopped
  • 100 grams walnuts roughly chopped

Instructions

  • Heat the oven to 170°C fan and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
  • Mix the rice flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Set aside
  • Peel the bananas, and in a large bowl, big enough to take all the ingredients later, mash the peeled bananas thoroughly. Beat in the vanilla, then the yogurt and, one by one, the eggs followed by the melted and cooled coconut oil and sugar.
  • Gradually add the flour to the wet mixture. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure all is combined, and then fold in the chopped chocolate and walnuts.
  • Pour the batter into the lined loaf tin - it will come close to the top. Bake it in the oven for 50-55 minutes until shrinking from the sides of the tin and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out cleanish (if you manage to avoid the melted chocolate) with a few damp crumbs sticking to it. Sit the tin on a wire rack, and allow the cake to cool completely before removing from the tin.