Flax Banana Bread

Submitted by chia2160

"Adapted from the Red Mill site. I'm posting this here so I can make it often."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 1 loaf

ingredients

• 1 3⁄4 cups unbleached white flour
• 3⁄4 cup flax seed meal
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄3 cup canola oil
• 2 -3 medium very ripe bananas

• Topping

• 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1⁄4 cup light brown sugar (packed)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

directions

1. Preheat oven at 350°F
2. Grease a 8-1/2 x 4-1/2-inch bread pan; set aside.
3. Mix together flour, flaxseed meal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
4. In a separate bowl, beat together eggs and oil.
5. Add dry ingredients and mashed bananas alternately to egg and oil mixture, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour into prepared pan.
6. Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over batter in loaf pan. Pat down firmly into batter or swirl topping into batter with knife.
7. Bake 55-60 minutes.

Reviews

[Automm L.]

Delicious! I made a few changes to the original recipe. I used 4 bananas (I like my banana bread to be super banana-y). Instead of 2 eggs, I used just 1 egg and 1/3 cup of applesauce to make the bread moist. I used only 1/3 cup of sugar and it was brown sugar instead of granulated sugar. I didn't make the topping either, just sprinkled a good dose of cinnamon on top. It turned out phenomenal! It was a huge hit and I'll certainly be making it again.

 

[Renee L.]

This is a great recipe! I was planning to leave off the topping, however I inadvertently left out the sugar too! Thankfully I had added 3 rather large bananas and the bread was really quite yummy. My husband preferred it not too sweet and the bananas alone did the trick. Since I was ommiting the topping I added some cinnamon to the batter as well as a touch of vanilla. I will make this again!!

 

[Frida B.]

The BEST banana bread ever! I was worried when the batter was so thick and gooey, but WoW! It came out of the oven perfect. I added shaved dark chocolate and highly recommend. Thanks!

 

[Miranda C.]

Beautiful, simple recipe for teaching others how to bake. I substituted Dark Brown Sugar for white, & I 86'd the topping, due to food allergies others may have, & to lessen the calories; Of course there is cream cheese very close by! Displayed it one of my Master Baker Moms beautiful plates :)

 

[bobroberts]

Just made this recipe, half-batch. I added a little more BP and BS, just to bump up the volume a bit, and skipped the topping entirely. I'm afraid I'll never make another batch of BB as good as long as I live. It was perfect, absolutely perfect. Moist, dense, flavourful: Perfect. Thanks for the recipe. I'll be trying it again, as soon as possible.