Gluten-free banana bread

Ingredients

For 8 servings

• •5 small ripe bananas peeled, 4 mashed, 1 sliced down the middle to decorate the top
• •150 g gluten-free self-raising flour
• •100 g gluten-free oats
• •50 g ground almonds
• •1 c. à café gluten-free baking powder
• •1 c. à café ground cinnamon
• •90 g dark brown soft sugar
• •90 g caster sugar
• •100 g butter melted
• •2 eggs beaten
• •1 c. à soupe icing sugar

Method

1. 1.Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 900g loaf tin with baking parchment (our tin was 19 x 9 x 6cm).
2. 2.Put all the ingredients, except the sliced banana, 1 tbsp caster sugar and the icing sugar, in a large bowl and stir until smooth and combined.
3. 3.Pour the mixture into the tin and put the two remaining banana halves cut-side up across the top of the batter, pressing down slightly.
4. 4.Sprinkle over the caster sugar. Bake for 1 hr-1 hr 15 mins until a skewer comes out clean, covering with foil towards the end of cooking if it browns too much. Dust with icing sugar and leave to cool.