Man. I am OFF right now. I haven’t slept well the past few days, my skin is breaking out and I’m a little ball of stress. This entire week I’m traveling so that isn’t helping either. At the moment, I’m in Boulder to help promote this lovely city. Then once I get home tomorrow, I hop right on a plane to go to Austin for a little couples trip. Then I have a trip to Mexico for my best friends 30th birthday. All great trips, but it’s all making me a tad stressed out. I need to practice some deep breathing ASAP.
This slow internet isn’t help my stress levels. Breathe Juli, breathe.
The month of December just flies by and it’s just a few days away. I think it’s the malls that really make it feel like such a short month since they start celebrating Christmas the day after Halloween. No joke, I saw children sitting on Santa’s lap the day after Halloween this year at my local mall. That’s just excessive. You expect a child not to cry on a creepy old man’s lap after just coming down from a sugar high? Let’s be real here.
But this year I’m hoping most of the stress is missed since we won’t be putting too much effort into gift giving. We’ve decided to save our money for a family trip instead. I also don’t want my parents spending money on me at this point. I would rather them save for retirement. Is that how you know you’ve gotten old? When you think about your parents retirement more than you own? It sure makes me feel old. Remember the good ole’ days you thought your parents would never age and you didn’t know what a credit score was? Those were the good ole’ days.
So this year we aren’t doing presents. Which is kind of a bummer because I’ve found some super cute ones for my friends who like cocktails and my friends who like coffee. Which covers literally ALL of my friends. Look how damn cute all these things are…
Maybe I can just buy A FEW gifts. I mean, my sister-in-law TOTALLY needs this wine bottle holder. Or maybe I do?? I don’t even drink that much wine. Which is why I need a holder…right? Oh lord, I need to get my sh*t together, back away from the gift ideas, and have my morning cup of coffee. And I need to go get ready for a day of snowshoeing. Yesterday it was 75 degrees and now it’s 35 degrees. What the what?!
Gingerbread Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 3 brown bananas, mashed
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup cashew butter (or other nut/seed butter)
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon powdered ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- pinch of salt
- 1–2 tablespoons organic powdered sugar, for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8×4 loaf pan then line the middle with parchment paper. It will make it easier to remove from the pan.
- In a food processor, add all ingredients and puree until completely combined.
- Pour batter into loaf pan then place in oven to bake for 45-50 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Remove from oven, place on cooling rack and let rest for 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving.
- Once cool, top with sifted organic powdered sugar!
Notes
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I’m curious how do you measure your coconut four? Do you dip the measuring cup in and then sweep the top off? Or do you spoon it into the measuring cup and then sweep the top? I ask because I always have trouble with paleo baked goods but I rock the traditional gluten based recipes. 🙂 Thanks for all the great content you put out!
i spoon and sweep
Currently baking in the oven! Thanks for yet another fantastic recipe!!
i hope it tastes delicious!!
The recipe calls for 3 banana’s. How big? Can these 3 banana’s be placed into cup size like how many cups of mashed banana’s do you need. Banana’s can be purchased small, medium and large size. My standard regular recipe for just banana bread calls for one cup of mashed banana’s.
medium!
Made this today & it is delicious!!! Any idea on the nutritional stats? I used cashew butter.
no clue, but you can use a nutritional calculator online to figure out those details!
This recipe is so delicious! I just popped in my families second loaf for the week!
awesome!! so glad you loved it enough to make it again!
Dude! Delicious! Brought it to a holiday party in St Pete, FL. It was a hit despite falling some in the middle. Not an expert baker at all. IDK if it needed more time or more flour or less humidity or mile high altitude or what. Either way flavor was awesome! Will do this again- so simple.
Re: falling banana bread found this … https://www.livestrong.com/article/553396-how-to-keep-my-banana-bread-top-from-sinking/
Thanks for sharing! This definitely explains the issues I had! Fortunately, the loaf still tastes delicious. Thanks for another fantastic recipe, Juli!
OMGGG! Made this last night. Loved that I had all the ingredients.
SO GOOD! Making another one today for we have guests this weekend that will love it!
I just made this — it is delicious!
I did not use a loaf pan, instead I used a 9″ round cake pan.
No dropping in the middle.
Thank you for this and all your recipes!!
so glad you liked it, kim!
Made this yesterday and it turned out wonderfully after I made three changes. I normally don’t make changes to a recipe and then rate it because that kind of defeats the purpose ???? but after reading all the comments previously about the loaf not turning out, I didn’t want to use all the ingredients and effort and not be able to enjoy it ????
Anyway, after these few tweaks it was SUPERB! Try it!
1.) Used 2 M/L size bananas instead of 3 M size bananas
2.) Mixed the wet and dry ingredients SEPERATELY before gently mixing them together.
3.) Lowered the oven temp slightly and cooked then 15 min longer
Hopefully that works for others as well!
❤️