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Recipe:
Ingredients
2 1/4 cups (254 g) white whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon table salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup honey
1/2 cup (107 g) light brown sugar (or coconut sugar)
1/4 cup applesauce
1/4 cup (60 mL) oil (any neutral oil will work – I like avocado oil but melted coconut oil will also work)
2 large eggs room temperature
1 ½ cups (340 g) very ripe bananas (about 4 medium)
½ cup (114 g) Greek yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup walnuts, optional- toasted and chopped
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350oF. Spray a 9×5” loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray or grease with butter and set aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
3. In a small mixing bowl, mash bananas with a fork. Set aside.
4. In the same mixing bowl with the bananas, whisk in the sugar, oil, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla extract and stir until combined.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together with a spatula until just combined. Stir in walnuts, if using.
6. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 60-65 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow the bread to cool completely in the pan set on a wire cooling rack. Store the bread, and any leftovers, covered at room temperature for 2 days, or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Notes
Use Ripe Bananas. You want to make sure you use very ripe bananas. Bananas that have lots of black specks. The blacker the banana is the sweeter it will be. I actually like to freeze my bananas when they have gotten too ripe to use later for banana bread. If you use frozen bananas, then let the bananas thaw before using them.
Mash first. Mash your bananas before adding them to the mixing bowl. I do this by hand with a fork since I have used frozen bananas they are very easily mashed. You could also use a pastry blender, potato masher, or a hand mixer.
Measure your flour accurately. I use the spoon and level method. You can learn how to measure your flour in this post.
Careful to not over mix. I like to use a spatula and fold in the dry ingredients by hand. You want to stop mixing once they have been incorporated. Too much mixing = too much gluten forming. Gluten is what will give a bread its chew, but for a banana bread you want less gluten to form. So we can accomplish that by making sure we don’t overmix!
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Flavor of your banana bread in a large mixing bowl you want to whisk together the flour baking soda salt and I like adding a little bit of cinnamon for this banana bread I’m using white whole wheat flour this is this is 100% whole wheat banana bread recipe and in order to get
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Gritty try out this whole wheat flour and I think you’re going to be wonderfully surprised next we’re going to go ahead and mash up our bananas and simply just do this with a fork and I’m going to use the same Bowl to add to the rest of my ingredients so make sure to
Choose one that’s large enough and then I’m going to whisk in my sugar and then you’ll add in your oil when it comes to the oil you have quite a few options here I’m really loving baking with avocado oil right now it’s an anti-inflammatory oil it’s a really
Great oil for baking and no it doesn’t taste like avocados but you can obviously use any type of neutral tasting oil if you want to impart a little bit of flavor you can definitely use olive oil if you’re really in a pinch even melted butter of course is
Going to work we want it a liquid form but I definitely love using an oil in my banana bread I think it just makes for a moisture crumb then go ahead and add in your applesauce eggs and some vanilla extract and whisk it all to combine then
You’ll simply add in your flour mixture and stir it together and I like to stir in some toasted walnuts I highly recommend if you are going to add in walnuts toast them first to really bring out the flavor I simply toast mine on a baking sheet at 350° for about 7 to 8
Minutes and then I let them cool and chop and add them to my banana bread butter once that’s all stirred together simply pour into your prepared loaf pan and it’s ready to bake the bread will take about an hour in the oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes
Out clean or with a few moist crumbs and your banana bread is ready to enjoy I love it warm out of the oven I love cutting a slice of it and slathering out a little bit of butter of course you can have a lot of fun with this recipe you
Can swap out the walnuts add in chocolate chips instead but it’s really enjoyable even just plain without either added the best part about banana bread is I actually love freezing any leftover for a few months that way I can enjoy this healthy banana bread for months to
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