The urge to bake overcame me this week when I noticed six overripe bananas sitting on the counter. I'd bought flax seed and wheat germ to play around with so I modified my basic banana bread recipe in an attempt to make it healthier.
Banana Bread:
Ingredients
- 3 overripe bananas
- 3/4 cup of brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cup self rising flour
- 1/2 cup wheat germ
- 9 tbsp flax seed
- 5 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup of applesauce
Throw everything in the bowl & mix well. Pour batter into greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 for an hour & ten minutes.
I took a loaf to our play date at the pool on Wednesday and the remnants of a second loaf to our play date on Friday. Very tasty, but if it stayed in the house, I'd eat it all. I know my weaknesses well and carbs top the list.
I also made a loaf of 100% whole wheat bread using this recipe from King Arthur flour. Also very tasty, but a bit more dense than I was looking for in an all the time wheat bread recipe. I'll keep looking.
