Banana Bread

In an effort to start making the vast majority of our food from scratch (more about that soon), and to use up some over-ripe bananas, I made some delicious banana bread yesterday. The original recipe can be found here.

Banana Loaf

1/4 cup applesauce
1 cup (packed) brown sugar
2 Tbsp ground flax seed, mixed with 2 Tbsp water
3 medium ripe bananas, mashed
1 tsp bicarb soda
3/4 cup wholemeal flour
3/4 cup white flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup vegan dark chocolate chips (my addition)

"Cream" applesauce and brown sugar. Add flax mixture. Mash bananas and bicarb soda together, add to the other mixture. Mix remaining ingredients together (except choc chips). Stir dry ingredients into banana mixture until all ingredients are moistened. Fold in choc chips.

Pour mixture into a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan which has been sprayed with canola oil. Bake at 175ºC for about an hour until a skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Delicious warm from the oven with a smear of vegan margarine!