Recipe: Perfect Whole wheat banana bread

Whole wheat banana bread. This moist, tender, richly flavored loaf features whole wheat flour, making this a super (and tasty!) way to increase your family's intake of healthy fiber. Using honey as some of the sweetener adds both moistness, and the merest hint of honey flavor. This whole wheat banana bread is made without oil and butter.

Banana bread is one of those recipes with a thousand different versions floating around the internet and in books. I typically use whole wheat pastry flour in most baking recipes but traditional, slightly courser whole wheat flours work in this bread as well. This is a moist banana bread recipe that I make fairly often with leftover, very ripe bananas. You can have Whole wheat banana bread using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Whole wheat banana bread

1. You need 4 of ripe bananas.
2. It's 2 of eggs.
3. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
4. You need 1/2 cup of butter.
5. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
7. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
8. You need 1 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour.
9. You need 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
10. It's 1 1/2 cup of milk.

Plus it is a cinch to mix together and only requires one bowl. Since I live by myself, I like to bake a big loaf of banana bread and freeze it for later. This whole wheat banana bread recipe is lightened up with Greek yogurt and is sweetened using a combination of honey and brown sugar. Do you always have extra bananas leftover at the end of the week?

Whole wheat banana bread step by step

1. Preheat oven at 350°.
2. Mix flour, sugars, salt, baking soda.
3. In a separate bowl mash bananas into a purée as finely as possible.
4. Mix wet ingredients (eggs, milk, butter, and vanilla) into its own mixture..
5. Combine dry and wet mixtures and add to greased and lightly floured bread pan.
6. Bake for 80 mins.

I always buy quite a few bananas on the weekend and take them to work for a snack during. I think it's a little crazy when I see banana bread recipes that call for an entire cup of sugar. Ripe bananas are so naturally sweet I actually use them as the sweetener in some recipes like smoothies and pancakes. Moist, delicious whole wheat banana bread. Best healthy banana bread recipe on the internet with a Breadtopia video tutorial to boot.