Monday, April 6, 2009

Devon's Baking...Banana Bread


I'm on Spring Break and, as many of you know, Dave and I are also soon moving to a new place (we're renting a 3 bedroom townhouse starting April 2oth!) in Hillcrest in a few weeks.... and I promised to spend much of my break packing up our place. BUT, small problem... I HATE packing. Seriously hate it. So I am watching reruns of Gilmore Girls on ABC Family and simultaneously baking Banana Bread (I'm trying to use up some of our refrigerator/cupboard stuff). This is one of our favorite recipes:

BANANA BREAD
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour (you can use all all-purpose flour if you don't have wheat flour)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup applesauce
1 cup splenda (you can use 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup splenda or 1 cup sugar instead if you don't want this to be as diet-y)
3 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla
4 very ripe bananas, mashed (we usually freeze any bananas that are about to go bad and then pull them out when we are ready to make banana bread)

Preheat oven to 350. Spray bread pan with Pam. In KitchenAid, mix all ingredients (if you don't have a K-A, combine first 4 ingredients and set aside. Then whisk remainder of ingredients and add flour mixture to combine). Pour batter into pan and bake 50-60 minutes (or until knife inserted comes out clean). Cut into 10 slices; if you use all Splenda, each slice is 155 calories.

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