Healthy Recipes
Breakfast Mini-Loaves
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup butter softened
- ½ cup of Splenda
- ¼ cup of regular white or brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup mashed bananas (2-3 ripe)
- 1 cup apple sauce (I use the no-sugar added, natural - has more chunks)
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup oatmeal
- ½ cup regular white flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 cup dried fruit - raisins and/or cherries and/or craisins - whatever is on hand
- ½ cup nuts - walnuts or pecans
- ½ cup of coconut - optional
- 1 cup of dark chocolate chips
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Grease bottom only of mini loaf pans
3. Cream together butter, Splenda and sugar
4. Beat in the eggs and vanilla
5. Blend in the bananas and apple sauce
6. Mix in all the dry ingredients (flour, oatmeal, soda and powder)
7. Fold in the remaining ingredients
8. Fill all the mini-loaf holes with the batter
9. Bake for 30 minutes
Serves: 8 mini-loaves
This could also be done as muffins and baked for less time.