Gluten free and vegan banana and date cakes

Made these little beauties for the meditation society social and have to say that they went down a treat!!!  For the flour, I used coconut flour but as I know how hard this is to find in Mauritius, I would recommend a mixture of 80g almond meal and 40g rice flour or spelt flour or if you are not bothered about a gluten free cake, half almond meal and half whole wheat flour.

Before I get to the recipe, I thought that I would attach a link to these creepy witch fingers biscuits I'm planning to make for halloween, for anyone looking for some scary treats. 

 http://allrecipes.com/recipe/spooky-witches--fingers.aspx/. You can't really go wrong with an 'all-recipes' recipe!

GLUTEN FREE AND VEGAN BANANA AND DATE CAKES
Makes about 8 individual cakes

I call these "cakes" as they are much more moist as opposed to muffins, you could easily make this into a large round cake, perfect for a dinner party, adjusting the cooking time to the point whereby a skewer comes out clean.  

• 1 large ripe banana
• 50 ml olive oil
• 40 g honey or sweetener of choice
• About 10 dates, pitted and chopped
• 1 tsp baking powder 
• 0.5 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Pinch of salt
• 130 ml coconut milk (or any other type)
• 120g gluten free flour( I used coconut, variation in intro)
• 20 g oats
• 2 tbsp of chia seeds or any other seeds i.e;pumpkin (optional) 

1. Mash up the banana and mix in the oil, honey, milk and vanilla extract.Pour in the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt and oats and combine until thoroughly combined.
2. Toss in the chopped dates and seeds and fold carefully into the batter.
3. Divide the mix into muffins cases and bake for about 20 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
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