Have you ever heard of Hummingbird Cake? Once, I heard about it on Paula Dean’s old show (remember her? she gone) but it had 18 pounds of butter in one cake, so I kind of forgot about it. But when I recently walked into my favorite breakfast restaurant Devil’s Food and they had samples of gluten free hummingbird bread. And if a sample includes the word gluten free in it, I’m trying it. Samples are my favorite past time. It’s not really a past time when I’m in Whole Foods in the bulk section, but you know what I mean. Anywho, their hummingbird bread was boooooomb. Like, so good. So I made it for myself. So here ya go.
Let’s talk about the weekend. Because it was filled with fun exercise. I get sick of being in my CrossFit gym sometimes. I loooove CrossFit Broadway, but sometimes my body needs a break from excessively painful workouts. I love how I feel after a CrossFit workout, but my hip flexors don’t always love it. So this weekend, I went to spinning class, ran Red Rocks, and biked around Denver. Those things hurt, but not nearly as bad as wall balls. Eff wall balls.
So this is what I figured out in spin class. I’m not motivated to work very hard in spin class unless a REALLY good song comes on. Spin class takes patience, because well, it’s an hour. An hour of straight pedaling is BORING. Especially when you’re staring at your miserable self in the mirror. That’s exactly why I don’t do yoga. I get much too bored. All I think about is everything else I could be doing. Like cutting my toenails. Or braiding my hair. And I don’t ever braid my hair. But out of the hour class, I got at least 7 minutes of hard work in with this song. I’m obsessed with this song now. If the instructor would have played this on repeat, I would have burned at least 800 more calories.
This is what I figured out about workout at Red Rocks. Those workouts are always finished with bloody mary’s. I don’t know why alcohol tastes so much better after running up and down stairs at a higher altitude…wait wait wait…slowly waddling up and down stairs at a higher altitude, stairs are hard…but it totally does. I feel like I only really LOVE bloody mary’s when exercise is involved. Or maybe I really only love exercise when I know I will be rewarded with a bloody mary. Either way, my poor waitress poured a glass of water down my shirt so I got a free bloody mary! She thought I would be upset, but I was just pumped to finally not feel sticky anymore. She actually cooled me down. But she was so embarrassed. I wish that happened to me more often.
Last but not least, this is what I learned from biking around Denver. You can never rely on a man to plan something. Sorry bros, but it’s true. A group of 3 guys and I biked to the other side of Denver to go to the GIANT REI to rent blow up paddle boards. As soon as we passed the river, I knew I was going to pass on the paddle boarding. People were wearing helmets and eatin’ sh*t every 5 seconds. That’s not my kind of paddle boarding. But luckily, REI doesn’t rent those paddle boards. And it started pouring rain. So we went and got tacos back on the other side of town instead. So even though I got more exercise in then planned, I figured out, you cannot rely on men to plan out your Sunday.
I’m learning so much as I age.
Hummingbird Bread
- Yield: 4-6 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour/powder
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup pineapple, diced
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 3 eggs, whisked
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Add tapioca flour, coconut flour, coconut suguar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt to a large bowl and mix.
- Then add the rest of the ingredients, folding in pecans at the end.
- Pour mixture into a loaf pan (I lined mine with parchment paper for easy removal) and smooth at the top
- Bake for 40-45 minutes or until bread is completely cooked through (use the toothpick trick to check)
- Let cool slightly before serving.
Notes
Yields 8 slices
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This looks amazing! I can’t wait to make it!
I’m allergic to bananas. Do you think I can substitute sweet potato?
Sure!!
Wow! Someone else who is allergic to bananas?! I thought I was the only one! Have you found a good “go-to” substitute for banana in recipes??
Subbing sweet potato in this one seems like it would work really well – I’m assuming it would need to be pureed, yes?
Pureed pumpkin also works…
This may be a silly question, but I’ve never met someone allergic to bananas so what do I know! Lol. But are you also allergic to Plantains? They are in the banana family but not exactly bananas. Just curious
try it and let us know
What does the tapioca starch do?
I was wondering the same thing. It’s used as a thickening agent.
This looks amazing can not wait to try it. Thanks for sharing!
My mom makes the non-Paleo version of this but she calls it “Dr. Bird Cake” She makes it in a bundt pan with about 2 cups of vegtable oil. In college she would send me back after weekends home with a WHOLE FREAKING BUNDT PAN full of this stuff. I blame her for about 10lbs of my freshman 15.
Might have to try this so I’m no longer tempted to eat Mama Johnson’s oil/sugar laden bread.
Thanks.
“coconut guar”
You love GWAR!! Why don’t you join the band!!
Sorry…seeing this typo reminded me of that scene from Empire Records. Now I am amused. 🙂
My b. fixed it!
Love that movie!!!! 🙂
I cannot find coconut sugar. How do I make it or what do I substitute for it?? Someone help me!
Maple sugar, maybe? It’s available online at amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=coconut+palm+sugar&sprefix=hanni%2Caps%2C153. Although I’m wondering if you could just leave the sugar out.
It’s also called palm sugar, palm nectar, coconut nectar…
I used raw honey instead if the coconut sugar. It came out great.
I see that someone used raw honey in place of the coconut sugar, how much honey did you use?
I found my coconut sugar at the sunflower shop but if you don’t have any health stores in your area try nuts.com. They have everything and great prices too!
If you can’t find coconut sugar locally, Amazon carries it. I love the Big Tree Farm brand. Their palm sugar’s glycemic index is only 38 and it’s also the tastiest I’ve found and is fabulous for baking.
awesome track. crazy lady
Have you seen the video of Martha and Paula making this cake? Was like battle of the baking broads! And God bless you for baking with coconut flour and tapioca blends! I’m liking them way better than almond flour 🙂
I love humming-birds and I love bread so I’m gonna say that this will be amazing. I have a friend going through Chemo right now and she’s eating like shit unless I bring her healthier sweet treats. I think this one is going to make her really, really happy. She’s still not convinced cleaner foods can taste good.
Even though it’s 102 here in Austin I’ll make it and take one for the gipper. I’ll let you know if my kitchen spontaneously combusts.
I’m feeling your pain here in Houston. It’s hard to get motivated to cook when you’re sweating inside and outside your house constantly…