I’ve had some bananas sitting around for a while that have been getting pretty dark, so I wanted to make some banana bread.
It only took me two tries to get this recipe right.
The first one crashed and burned last week.
It tasted good, but it didn’t rise much and looked like a flat pancake banana bread.
It was actually quite comical.
When figuring the points for this bread, I noticed the dry ingredients were really the worst offenders in making the points rise and rise.
In this recipe, I switched out the oil for unsweetened applesauce, regular all purpose flour for whole-wheat flour, and real sugar with sugar substitute and it made the world of a difference in points, without sacrificing any taste!
I’m really happy with how the Best Weight Watchers Banana Bread Recipe turned out and I think you will be too!
Ingredients
- 1/3 C Unsweetened Applesauce
- 1/2 C Truvia Sweet Complete Granulated All Purpose Stevia
- 2 eggs (if you’d like to use egg whites you can – or feel free to use the yolks)
- 3 overripe bananas, mashed to a pulp (the most important ingredient!)
- 1/4 C Skim Milk
- 1 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 Tsp Salt
- 1/2 Tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- (If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice, you can substitute cinnamon instead, or omit it.)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease a 9×5 loaf pan with cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, add the applesauce, Truvia, and eggs. Beat with an electric mixer or a whisk.
- Add the mashed bananas, milk, baking soda, vanilla, salt, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon. Beat or whisk until blended well.
- If you’re choosing to add nuts or chocolate chips, add them in and stir with a spoon to incorporate them into the batter.
- Using a large spoon, add the flour to the wet ingredients and stir to incorporate.
- Pour batter into the sprayed loaf pan. Here you can sprinkle some more spice on top, or if you’re adding chocolate chips or nuts to the top, do that now.
- Bake for one hour, or until a knife comes out clean when you stick it down through the center.
- Remove from oven and let cool for at least 15 minutes before removing from pan. I removed mine to a wire rack for additional cooling.
- If you wish to do so, after the bread has cooled, cut the loaf into 16 equal pieces.
