Hi friends!
I hope you are having a wonderful week so far. Good news…its already Wednesday! Only a few more days and its the weekend. I have a suggestion on how to make this week better..banana bread. I personally love baking. Its relaxing and I love seeing how the outcome is a slight different every time. Today I want to share with you my favorite banana bread recipe.
This recipe was featured in the magazine Eating Light. It’s considered a healthier choice than your usual banana bread recipes because it uses light cream and less sugar. You can even leave the sugar glaze out of your bread if you want less calories.
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter, softened and divided
- 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 3 medium ripe bananas, sliced
- 1/2 cup fat-free buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 tablespoons amber or gold rum
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Baking spray with flour
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons half-and-half
- Preparation
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°.
- 2. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add brown sugar and bananas; sauté 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes. Place banana mixture in a large bowl. Beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.
- 3. Combine buttermilk and next 3 ingredients (through eggs). Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add flour mixture and buttermilk mixture alternately to banana mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat at low speed just until combined. Scrape batter into a 9 x 5-inch metal loaf pan coated with baking spray. Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs clinging. Cool for 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack. Remove bread from pan, and cool on wire rack.
- 4. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a small, heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook 3 minutes or until butter begins to brown; remove from heat. Add powdered sugar and half-and-half, stirring with a whisk until smooth. Drizzle glaze over bread. Let stand until glaze sets.
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving- Calories: 190
- Fat: 6.3g
- Saturated fat: 2.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.7g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Carbohydrate: 30.5g
- Fiber: 1g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
- Iron: 1mg
- Sodium: 173mg
- Calcium: 26mg
