Banana Bread with Applesauce For Two
Love Banana Bread? You will love this easy Banana Bread with Applesauce For Two recipe: a guilt-free indulgence that will satisfy your banana bread craving.
Servings: 8 slices
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour To make this even healthier swap whole-wheat, spelt flour or gluten-free flour.
- ¼ cup sugar For a non-cane sugar option use honey, syrup or a sugar substitute.
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ salt
- 2 ripe bananas peeled and mashed well
- 1 large egg room temperature
- ¼ cup applesauce
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoons cinnamon
- ¼ cup grated bittersweet chocolate chocolate chips or candy coated chocolate (optional) to make a banana-chocolate bread.
Instructions
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray the loaf pan with cooking oil.
- Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, powder, salt, and cinnamon together into a medium bowl. Fold in chocolate, if using, set aside. In a separate bowl, whisk mashed banana, egg, applesauce, and vanilla together until smooth. Let set for 15 minutes.
- Gently fold banana mixture into flour mixture with rubber spatula until just combined. The batter will be lumpy with a few spots of dry flour; do not over mix to keep the banana bread moist and tender.
- Using rubber spatula, pour batter into prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until loaf is golden-brown, and a toothpick inserted in center of the loaf comes out clean, about 30 minutes for the loaf and 25 minutes for muffins, rotating pan halfway through baking.
- Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes, remove from pan. Let the loaf cool for at least 1 hour before slicing and serving