This Vegan Banana Maple Coffee Cake is perfect for weekend breakfast or brunch! It’s allergy friendly and delicious: gluten free and allergy friendly!
This morning I actually got up on time (!!) and had some time to make a hot breakfast, and we had a bunch of over-ripe bananas that begged to be baked into something yummy! I would have made banana muffins again, but I am burned out on banana muffins after several recipe flops: the last batch I made I forgot the baking soda (really dense!).
Since banana muffins were off the menu for a while, I decided to make something different today: coffee cake. I haven’t made coffee cake in while, so I decided to look through a cookbook I got for Christmas last year and I found the perfect recipe to make-over for breakfast.
Coffee cake is really more of a dessert, but this cake is still wholesome because it is made with whole grain flour, pure maple syrup, less fat, bananas, and (best of all) it’s allergy-friendly!
Recipe adapted from the HayDay Country Market Cookbook by Kim Rizk
Vegan Banana Maple Coffee Cake (Gluten Free)
Ingredients
Crumb:
- ¼ cup brown rice flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup pumpkin seeds toasted (or sunflower seeds or other nuts)
- ¼ cup ground flax or chia seed
- 1 Tablespoon Stevia in the Raw
- 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup
Cake:
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- ¼ cup ground flax or chia seed as a binder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon scant salt
- 2 medium sized ripe bananas
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 Tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350˚ F and spray an 8x8 inch with oil.
- Prepare the crumb mixture: in a food processor, add the flour, cinnamon, seeds or nuts, ground flax seed, Stevia, coconut oil, and maple syrup. Pulse process a couple times until mixed well and crumbly. Set aside.
- In a medium size bowl, whisk together the flour, ground flax seed, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In a larger bowl, mash bananas well, then mix in the maple syrup, vanilla, oil, and lemon juice or vinegar. Once mixed well, add in the dry ingredients and mix together.
- Pour a little less than half the batter into the pan and spread it out. Sprinkle this layer with 1/2 the crumb mixture. Pour the rest of the batter on top of this and carefully spread out. Top the batter with the remaining crumb mixture.
- Bake in the over for 20-25 minutes or until nicely browned and toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.
- Let cake cool in the pan a bit before cutting and serving warm. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Sarah Jane Parker is the founder, recipe creator, and photographer behind The Fit Cookie. She’s a food allergy mom and allergy friendly food blogger of 12 years based in Wyoming. Sarah is also an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, ACE Certified Health Coach, Revolution Running certified running coach, and an ACE Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist
Hi, would it be ok to use white rice flour instead of brown rice or a combination of sorghum and white rice/tapioca flour?
Thanks!
Hamel
Hi Hamel! You can replace the brown rice flour with white rice flour or sorghum flour. You could use some tapioca flour in this recipe, but it would change the texture so I wouldn’t use too much. The rice flour or sorghum flour should work fine. I have had good results replacing brown rice flour with sorghum flour
oh this looks great! i may use something in place of brown rice flour.. maybe half almond and half tapioca??
You could use probably any gluten-free flour in this recipe, but the amount of flour may differ based on the amount of absorption of the flour. I haven’t used almond flour much, but you could give it a try and let me know how it works out : )