Healthy Banana Bread
I have a lot of friends who are lactose intolerant and I wanted to make a cake that has absolutely no dairy. Something that’s not too complicated.
I’ve made this recipe multiple times and have experimented with butter, applesauce and oil. All methods will yield a divine loaf perfect for tea time. The cake is the most moist with applesauce but there’s no need to buy a whole jar if you’re only going to use a 1/4 of a cup. Oil is best because it’s a pantry staple and butter obviously has lactose. I used my homemade oat milk in every cake and it works well, but if you don’t have lactose free milk hot water is perfectly fine.
Ingredients
1/2 cup of Xylitol
1/4 cup Applesauce/ 1/2 cup butter / 1/2 cup of oil
3 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp lactose free milk/hot water
3 ripe bananas mashed
2 cups of gluten-free flour (I use the Woolies kind)
2 tsp bicarb
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of Walnuts (optional)
Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees
Spray a loaf pan with spray-and-cook
In a bowl, combine flour, bicarb and salt
In a separate bowl whisk sugar and applesauce/oil/butter
Add eggs one at a time , lactose free milk/water and vanilla - beat well
Add banana
Add dry ingredients, nuts and fold into mixture.
Bake for 35-40 minutes.
TIP: I usually check on my cake at 30 minutes. I promise it won’t flop if you open the oven door early.