The Best Banana Bread

Banana bread can be great even without a ton of butter or added sugar. This recipe uses overripe bananas, honey, and a little brown sugar to create a bread you won’t be able to resist.

Recipe adapted from Food Network:

Ingredients:

4-5 medium overripe bananas

2 large eggs room temperature

1/3 cup applesauce

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup light brown sugar

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 scoop vanilla protein powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup nonfat vanilla Greek yogurt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a bread baking pan with baking spray or grease and dust with flour.
2. Add bananas, applesauce, eggs, yogurt, honey, and vanilla extract to stand mixer. Mix on low to mash bananas.
3. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl- flour, protein powder, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg. Add to mixer 1 cup at a time. Mix until just combined.
4. Pour batter into prepared pan.
5. Bake 60-70 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
6. Cool on wire rack for at least 10 minutes.
7. Remove bread from baking pan and let cool.
8. Slice and store in an air tight container.
9. Enjoy!