Banana Bread with Chocolate Glaze

Whether served for meal oregon a snack, this lightened up banana breadstuff with cocoa glaze is definite to please. Wonderfully moist with other nutrition added and tons of chocolate, it is simply a look you volition privation to enactment connected repeat.

Banana breadstuff is thing I marque frequently. I bargain bananas practically each clip I spell to the market store. A banana and a spoon afloat of peanut food oregon almond food is my go-to, nary fuss breakfast.

Because I bargain them truthful frequently, determination are galore times they get to that overripe signifier earlier anyone eats them. Then it’s clip to marque banana bread. I person tried galore recipes implicit the years and determination are a batch of bully ones retired there.

Most precocious I made the 1 connected the screen of the existent Cooking Light Magazine. You’ve astir apt seen it. Doesn’t it look to dice for? It’s covered with a fabulous, silky cocoa glaze. It’s a lightened up banana breadstuff made with skim milk, lite sour cream, and ovum whites. A hefty dose of mashed bananas (1 2/3 cups)  helps support the breadstuff ace moist and filled with fantastic banana flavor.

Lightened Up Banana Bread Recipe

I altered the look a small to marque it adjacent healthier, subbing retired 1 cupful of the 2 cups of all-purpose flour for 3/4 cupful full wheat flour and 1/4 cupful crushed flaxseed. I’ve been experimenting adding crushed flaxseed to a clump of antithetic foods. And the results are precise good. You tin adhd it to breads, pancakes, waffles, muffins, and smoothies.

Ground Flaxseed

If you bargain a container of crushed flaxseed, you volition privation to use it often due to the fact that crushed flaxseeds (whole flaxseeds volition support longer) are precise perishable and volition lone support for 3-6 months and they should beryllium stored successful the refrigerator oregon freezer.

Simple Chocolate Glaze

I besides changed the cocoa glaze. I archetypal made the glaze that the Cooking Light recipe calls for by melting 2 ounces of semi-sweet cocoa with 2 1/2 tablespoons of fractional and half, but I didn’t similar the mode it turned out. It was heavy and dull looking, thing similar their picture. I dispersed it connected the breadstuff anyways, but past I made a 2nd batch by melting the aforesaid magnitude of cocoa with conscionable 1 tablespoonful of shortening and it made a nice, liquidy cocoa glaze with a superb shine. So yes, I ended up with a treble batch of cocoa connected my banana bread.

Use Overripe Bananas

The bananas should beryllium astatine slightest arsenic ripe arsenic the bananas successful the representation above, preferably riper. Mash them good with a fork and past measurement them. You request 1 2/3 cups of mashed banana which is 3 mean to ample bananas.

Variations

• Add nuts if you like. Either walnuts oregon pecans enactment truly well.
• Use 2 cups of all-pupose flour alternatively of a substance of all-purpose, full wheat flour and flaxseed.

How To Store

Can beryllium kept astatine country somesthesia for 4 days, successful the refrigerator for 1 week, oregon frost for up to 2 months.

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Banana Bread with Chocolate Glaze

Whether served for meal oregon a snack, this lightened up banana breadstuff with a cocoa glaze is definite to please. Wonderfully moist with other nutrition added and tons of chocolate, it is simply a look you volition privation to enactment connected repeat.

Course Bread

Cuisine American

Keyword bananas, chocolate, speedy bread

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 55 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes

Servings 16

Calories 185kcal

Equipment

• Electric Mixer
• 9×5-inch loaf pan

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 2/3 cups mashed ripe banana, about 3 bananas
• 1/4 cup skim milk
• 1/4 cup lite sour cream
• 2 large ovum whites
• 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Cooking spray
• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon shortening

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly overgarment a 9 X 5-inch loaf cookware with cooking spray.
• Combine food and sweetener successful the vessel of an electrical mixer and bushed astatine mean velocity until good blended.
• Add banana, milk, sour cream, and ovum whites. Mix until blended.
• In a mean vessel whisk unneurotic all-purpose flour, full wheat flour, flaxseed, baking soda, and salt.
• Add flour substance and vanilla extract to banana mixture, beating conscionable until blended.
• Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes, oregon until the apical feels steadfast erstwhile pressed on. Cool successful cookware for 10 minutes earlier removing to a ligament rack to chill completely.
• For glaze, spot cocoa and shortening successful a tiny saucepan implicit debased vigor and disturbance until melted and smooth. Drizzle implicit bread.

Notes

Can beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for 4 days, successful the refrigerator for a week, oregon frozen for up to 2 months.

Nutritional info is provided arsenic an estimation lone and volition alteration based connected brands of products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 185kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 176mg | Potassium: 147mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 121IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 1mg

Originally posted October 6, 2013.

Recipe Source: adapted from Cooking Light

The station Banana Bread with Chocolate Glaze appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.