Description
This tasty recipe is deliciously moist and sweet while still including plenty of whole grains and healthy ingredients.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup milled flax seed
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ cup butter, at room temperature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granular sucralose sweetener (such as Splenda®)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ cup nonfat plain yogurt
- 3 medium bananas, mashed
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- ½ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips (Optional)
- 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts
- 1 tablespoon miniature semisweet chocolate chips (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Mix all-purpose flour
- whole wheat flour
- flax seed
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
- cinnamon
- cloves
- and nutmeg in a bowl. Beat butter
- brown sugar
- and sucralose sweetener in another bowl until light and fluffy. Beat eggs
- vanilla extract
- and lemon juice into butter mixture until well combined.
- Stir flour mixture into butter mixture until smooth. Add yogurt
- bananas
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- and 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- stirring until batter is just blended. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle remaining 1 tablespoon walnuts and 1 tablespoon chocolate chips on top of batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 70 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 10