Grain-Free Morning Matcha Loaf, Paleo, GF
Grain-Free Morning Matcha Loaf (Paleo, Gluten-free) recipe. An antioxidant-full morning loaf made with almond flour, coconut flour, and coconut cream.
It has been quite a while since we have posted a Paleo loaf on this blog (we blame our crazy old oven!). But now that we have a fully functioning reliable oven, we have found our desire to bake come back in full force.
Well, it did until we got sick. We have had a cold for over a week now… a lingering, heavy, head cold that has taken our desire of food away. Now, you know it’s bad when we do not want to eat! haha we have been basically surviving on chicken soup and tea all week long.
And now that we are finally feeling better, we decided to bake something with our favorite tea. This Grain-Free Morning Matcha Loaf.
Of course we bake something when we feel better. It’s just what we do! So we played around with a prior recipe that we had been testing out and this beautiful cinnamon-full, green tea matcha fueled loaf is the result.
It is satisfying. We don’t know if it would be matcha over-kill, but we think it would taste great with a cup of matcha tea… or any beverage for that matter, at any time of day.
As you can probably tell already, we can not get enough matcha in our life! What could have been a fad, has become a permanent staple in our house.
Why? Well we feel better when we drink matcha tea than when we drink coffee. When we drink coffee, we get an instant rush then a crash; we also feel jittery and dehydrated. But when we drink matcha tea, we feel calm, focused, and lighter. We swear, our body loves and craves all of the antioxidants in matcha.
One cup of matcha tea has as many antioxidants as 10 cups of green tea!
We also just really love the taste of matcha tea. We have heard some people find it to be bitter, but we have really grown to love the flavor. Plus, we've found that if you add a little honey and almond milk or coconut milk to your cup, it is just divine!
Since our body asks for it, we feel like we need to listen to it. So obviously, that means make a Grain-Free Morning Matcha Loaf.
Our personal favorite kind of matcha is from Kiss Me Organics. We like to buy the Culinary Grade Green Tea Powder, so that we can do lots of baking with it. 🙂
One thing that we noticed, is that our baked goods are green for only about 2 hours after baking them, then they kind of turn a dark greenish brownish color. Has anyone else encountered this? We did some research and realized that to keep the color from the matcha tea powder, an acid needs to be added to the batter, such as lemon or apple cider vinegar, so we'll play around with that and let everyone know how that goes.
Cook 40 minutesTotal 40 minutesMakes 10
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut cream, (make sure there are no preservatives in the ingredient list, our favorite is Savoy)
- a scant 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup coconut flour, (we like Nutiva)
- 1 Tbs organic matcha green tea powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 in x 5 in loaf tin with parchment paper or wax paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the maple syrup and coconut cream together. Add the apple sauce to the bowl and whisk. Add the 4 eggs to the bowl and whisk again, until well blended.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the almond flour, coconut flour, matcha green tea powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Pour the dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix well.
- Pour the batter into the lined loaf tin and pat down the top of the batter with a spatula to even it out.
- Bake for 37-40 minutes, until the center has hardened and the loaf has cooked through.
