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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What could I sub for the tapioca powder/starch? Trying to make it GAPS friendly..thx
check out some of the comments, i know people talked about using arrowroot (but i’m not sure if you can have that). almond flour would probably work as well but i’m not sure how much
Hi Juli, do you know if I could I sub the tapioca flour for more coconut flour and/or almond meal? If so, how much more should be added? Thanks, Sarah
Try arrowroot powder! The conversion is 1 TBSP arrowroot = 2 TBSP tapioca flour 🙂
Thanks Pam.
I just made this last night with 1/2 c. of arrowroot flour and it turned out great. I might try it again with 1/4 c. just to see if it’s different but I’ve found in multiple recipes that you can substitute arrowroot 1 c. for 1 c. with tapioca flour.
Juli: i too love that you use coconut flour instead of almond flour in most things! Your recipes are awesome and so are you! Thanks 🙂
Red Rocks looks awesome! Have you done the Incline in Manitou Springs? I was there over Memorial Day weekend, it’s intense!
This bread looks soooo delicious! I’m cursing our good grocery store (HUGE health food section) for being all the way across town right now!
Hey! We are on like day 3 of the whole30,lol…can I just leave the coconut sugar out completely?
yes, it just wouldn’t taste exactly the same though
Planning on making this tomorrow…
Question, what size bread pan is this recipe designed for?
Thanks 🙂
it doesn’t reallly matter, the smaller it is, the higher the bread will rise
Any ideas on where to find some of these ingredients in Farmville, USA? No Whole Foods. No specialty shops. 🙁
Which ingredients
Amazon! I feel your pain…no Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, anything here either. Tropical Traditions is also a good site.
YUMMY! I didn’t have tapioca flour so I used 1/4 cup arrowroot powder and 1/4 cup almond flour instead, and it turned out great! I have never heard of hummingbird bread/cake before this, so when I first saw the title, I was horrified. haha! Thank goodness I kept reading! Love it.
I just made these. Followed the recipe exactly – I happened to have all the ingredients on hand and I live in Hawaii, so a fresh pineapple was sitting on my table waiting to be eaten. 😉 Holy crap balls this recipe is amazing. I made them in muffin form (my paleo-ish bread always ends up too mushy in the middle). Really truly delicious. Possibly the best paleo muffins I’ve had. Going to be my breakfast for the week (if they last past this afternoon). Thank you!