Description
Healthy banana bread only sweetened with honey and bananas, inside there's a luscious honey cinnamon swirl, making it the ultimate brunch without the guilt.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup all purpose flour, 125g
- 1 cup whole wheat flour, 120g
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg, optional
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 large ripe bananas, mashed (+ 1 sliced lengtwise for decoration, optional)
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup honey, 170g
- 4 tbsp greek yoghurt
- 4 tbsp milk, of your choice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract, optional
Cinnamon Swirl
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preparations: Pre-heat oven to 350F (175C). Lightly grease a 9x5 in (27x10cm) loaf tin with cooking spray or oil. You can also use parchment paper if you want to.
- Mix the dry ingredients together: flours, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt, in a medium bowl.
- Mix wet ingredients: Mash the bananas. In a large bowl, mix eggs and honey together, then add in bananas, greek yoghurt, milk and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- Mix dry into wet: Working in batches, fold in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, until just incorporated. Try not to overmix!
- Make cinnamon swirl: Mix honey and cinnamon into a thin paste.
- Pour into the loaf pan: Start by adding 1/3 of the banana bread batter into the pan. Drizzle half of the cinnamon paste over, before pouring over another 1/3 of the batter. Now swirl the rest of the cinnamon paste over, before the last 1/3 of the batter.
- Optional: Slice a banana lengthwise and top the batter with it, lightly pressing down. I like the extra texture and banana flavor this gives, it's not just a decoration!
- Bake: On the middle rack for 1 hour. Optional: brush with butter on top for that sweet and salty combination.
- Cool: Cool 5-10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool 'completely' (this just means cool enough to slice because slightly warm banana bread is the BEST!)
- Serve: Slice into 12-ish slices. Best with some butter on, but delicious either way!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Inactive Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 1 hours
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1-inch slice
- Calories: 178
- Sugar: 20
- Sodium: 65
- Fat: 1.9
- Saturated Fat: 0.4
- Unsaturated Fat: 1
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 37.9
- Fiber: 2.3
- Protein: 4.2
- Cholesterol: 28