This is probably my favorite grain free treat that I make.  My son would agree!  It is similar to my banana muffins but has that little extra oomph on top that makes it more like a coffee cake.

I use Kerrygold grass-fed butter as the topping.  Grass-fed butter has a whole host of nutritional benefits that I wanted to share with you.  Given the choice I would pick grass-fed butter, ghee, coconut oil, olive oil or avocado oil any day over margarine, and vegetable/seed oils for baking and cooking.

Grass-Fed Butter:

According to Kris Gunnars from the website Authority Nutrition:

Butter is basically just milk fat, also known as butterfat.

Butterfat is highly complex. It contains about 400 different fatty acids, and a decent amount of fat-soluble vitamins.

Fatty acids are actually more than just energy sources, some of them have potent biological activity.

As it turns out, many of the fatty acids in butter can affect our physiology and biochemistry in some way, leading to major health benefits.

This includes the fatty acid CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). It is popular as a fat loss supplement, and studies show that it can have powerful effects on health.

Grass-fed butter contains 5 times more CLA than butter from grain-fed cows.

Butter from grass-fed cows is also much higher in Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin K2, compared to butter from grain-fed cows 

and p.s. don’t’ be afraid of the saturated fat, the link between heart disease and saturated fat has been debunked in my opinion.  I will be writing about that at a later date but if you want to read something on that, here is a link to a WSJ article.  Everyone has an opinion on this and there is scientific studies done by both sides.  This is the one I personally agree with based on my reading and studying and what has worked for me.

The topping also includes 2 Tbsp of coconut sugar.  You need the sugar to make the topping crunchy, stevia will not work.  Coconut sugar is still sugar but it is lower in fructose than sugar, has a lower glycemic load and does contain more nutrients.  For an occasional treat it is a decent sugar substitute.

This is probably my favorite grain free treat that I make.  My son would agree!  It is similar to my banana muffins but has that little extra oomph on top that makes it more like a coffee cake.

I use Kerrygold grass-fed butter as the topping.  Grass-fed butter has a whole host of nutritional benefits that I wanted to share with you.  Given the choice I would pick grass-fed butter, ghee, coconut oil, olive oil or avocado oil any day over margarine, and vegetable/seed oils for baking and cooking.

Grass-Fed Butter:

According to Kris Gunnars from the website Authority Nutrition:

Butter is basically just milk fat, also known as butterfat.

Butterfat is highly complex. It contains about 400 different fatty acids, and a decent amount of fat-soluble vitamins.

Fatty acids are actually more than just energy sources, some of them have potent biological activity.

As it turns out, many of the fatty acids in butter can affect our physiology and biochemistry in some way, leading to major health benefits.

This includes the fatty acid CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). It is popular as a fat loss supplement, and studies show that it can have powerful effects on health.

Grass-fed butter contains 5 times more CLA than butter from grain-fed cows.

Butter from grass-fed cows is also much higher in Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin K2, compared to butter from grain-fed cows 

and p.s. don’t’ be afraid of the saturated fat, the link between heart disease and saturated fat has been debunked in my opinion.  I will be writing about that at a later date but if you want to read something on that, here is a link to a WSJ article.  Everyone has an opinion on this and there is scientific studies done by both sides.  This is the one I personally agree with based on my reading and studying and what has worked for me.

The topping also includes 2 Tbsp of coconut sugar.  You need the sugar to make the topping crunchy, stevia will not work.  Coconut sugar is still sugar but it is lower in fructose than sugar, has a lower glycemic load and does contain more nutrients.  For an occasional treat it is a decent sugar substitute.

Grain Free Banana-Coffee Cake Bread

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Servings	Prep Time
1 loaf	10 minutes

Cook Time

40 minutes

Servings Prep Time 1 loaf 10 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Grain Free Banana-Coffee Cake Bread Print Recipe Servings Prep Time 1 loaf 10 minutes Cook Time 40 minutes Servings Prep Time 1 loaf 10 minutes Cook Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 ripe bananas
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup almond butter
• 1/4 cup coconut flour
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• pinch salt
• 1/4 tsp liquid stevia

For the top:

• 4 tbsp grass-fed butter
• 2 tbsp coconut sugar
• 2 tbsp almond four
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 cup walnuts (crushed) or other nut

Servings: loaf

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Mash bananas and add other wet ingredients. Add in dry ingredients and mix well. Spray a loaf pan with coconut or other non-stick spray and pour batter into pan.
2. Meanwhile mash topping ingredients together. This works best by using your hands.
3. Break apart into pieces and place uniformly over the top of the batter.

   
4. Bake at 350 for approximately 30-40 minutes depending on your oven.
5. Cool and slice. Be prepared to have to exercise some willpower not to eat the whole thing!

   

Recipe Notes

Adapted from Paleomg.com Banana Coffee-cake bread

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