Gluten Free Upside-Down Banana Cake
 
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Easy Gluten Free Upside-Down Banana Cake
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 1 cake
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups gluten free all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon Bob's Red Mill Xanthan Gum - gluten free
  • ¼ cup 100% Maple Syrup - naturally gluten free
  • 1 teaspoon gluten free vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon gluten free cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
  • ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 1½ sticks butter, melted and cooled
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 ripe bananas, cut lengthwise
  • 4 eggs, at room temperature, beaten
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Wrap aluminum foil around the outside of a spring form pan to prevent syrup from leaking. Then grease the inside with butter.
  3. On a pan, melt 4 tablespoons butter then add the brown sugar, maple syrup and cinnamon. Cook until starts to bubble. Pour the mixture on the prepared pan.
  4. Arrange the bananas cut side down the way you like it.
  5. Cream together the remaining butter, granulated sugar, vanilla and eggs.
  6. In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, pinch of salt and xanthan gum then gently add it to the egg mixture. Pour the batter unto the pan with the bananas.
  7. Bake from 45 to 50 minutes or until the center springs back when lightly touched. Cool in the pan for few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to completely cool.
  8. Invert the cake to a platter. Serve
Recipe by The Gluten Free at https://www.theglutenfree.com/gluten-free-upside-down-banana-cake/