Banana Bread|lower fat & fabulous.

Happy Hump Day! Since starting Bountiful Baskets, I have had an abundence of bananas to eat for the past 2 weeks! We ate as many as we could before they started to turn brown, froze a bunch for smoothies and decided to make banana bread with the rest! I got this recipe from my sister, Alyssa and it is FABULOUS! It's a healthier recipe then most...until you get to the chocolate chip part, yes i said chocolate- but it calls for semi sweet and to me, that's halfway to dark chocolate which actually does have health benefits! 

Lower Fat{but not lower flavor} Banana Bread

2/3 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup applesauce

1 tbsp. canola oil

2 eggs

3 ripe, mashed bananas

1/4 cup water

1 cup white-whole wheat flour

2/3 cup oatmeal

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/3 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions

-preheat oven to 350 degrees

-spray 9x5x3 loaf pan with nonstick spray

-in a medium bowl, beat first 3 ingredients until smooth and creamy

-beat in the eggs, water and bananas until it is well blended

-mix in the dry ingredients until just moistened

{be sure to scrape sides of bowl}

-stir in chocolate chips :)

-bake at 350 for about 60 minutes

-bread is done when top is firm and golden brown in color

-remove from oven and cool on its side for 10 minutes

Enjoy and try not to eat entire loaf before dinner
xo- ash