Lightened-Up Banana Bread

Submitted by CookingONTheSide

"This recipe has only 2 points per serving points value when following Weight Watchers."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 1 loaf
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 1⁄4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 cup Splenda granular, no calorie artificial sweetener (granulated)
• 1 1⁄2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 bananas)
• 1⁄2 cup fat free egg substitute (like Egg Beaters)
• 1⁄2 cup no-sugar-added applesauce
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• no-calorie butter-flavored cooking spray (optional)
• Cool Whip Free (optional)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, combine both types of flour, Splenda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon (in other words, all dry ing redients).
3. In a separate bowl, mix together the mashed bananas, egg substitute, applesauce, and vanilla extract (all the wet ingredients).
4. Add this mixture to the bowl with the dry ingredients, and stir until just blended. Spoon batter into a large loaf pan (about 9" X 5") sprayed with nonstick spray.
5. Bake for about 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool slightly, and then cut into 8 slices.
6. If you like, spritz with some spray butter or spread on some Cool Whip Free.
7. This make 8 thick slices!

Reviews

[Lalaloula]

WOW, what a great banana bread recipe! It has tons of banana flavour and is moist and yummy! Mmm, everyone enjoyed it and no one would believe me that it was a lower fat, good for you version. :)<br/>I made half the recipe using a real egg and baking the dough in muffin tins, but other than that I followed your recipe to a t and it was perfect! THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this true winner with us, Lainey!<br/>Made and reviewed for Potluck Tag Game January 2011.

 

[bmcnichol]

I love banana bread and loved that this recipe was a lightened up version. I made the recipe exactly as written. We all enjoyed this.

 

[Annacia]

I adore the very low far and sugar content in this recipe and it tastes lovely. Mine ended up heavy and over moist. That could be because I didn't measure the banana but just used 3 banana's. When they were mashed up i thought that it looked on the generous side but used it all anyway. You get huge servings by just cutting 8 slices from a 9" loaf :D. I had 2 for my lunch and it was lots! I think I will use more cinnamon next time and measure the banana's. Made for Photo Tag.