My favorite Banana Bread

One of my favorite things to in the kitchen is bake banana bread. I have toyed around with many recipes over the years, but found this one to be one of the best.

{In this recipe, I've substituted butter for greek yogurt and sugar for applesauce.}

2 1/4 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1 Tsp Baking Soda
1/2 Tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 Tsp Ground Nutmeg
2 Eggs
1 Cup sweetened applesauce (replaces sugar)
1/2 Cup greek yogurt (replaces butter and oil)
3-4 Mashed Ripened Bananas
1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
1 Cup Chopped Walnuts

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Grease/ flour 9x5 loaf pan
3. In a stand mixer- mix bananas, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla extract.
4. In a separate bowl- add flour, white sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
5. Add dry ingredients to banana mixture.
6. Fold in walnuts
7. Bake for 60 minutes


Calories per loaf= 2386
About 8 servings (298 Calories per serving)

Note: If you omit the walnuts it saves you 800 Calories, which makes the total 1586, 198 calories per serving.