GREAT IRISH BAKE FOR TEMPLE STREET - LO CAL BANANA BREAD

 It's Temple Street Bake time again!

Low calorie banana bread

I'm a sucker for banana bread. I'd love a soda bread type one (I think I will have to invent it) but, in the absence of that, I made a low calorie one today based on this recipe. How she got 24 pieces out of this is beyond me - maybe her guests were mice. My loaf yields about 10 slices.

Apple sauce is not a staple here in Ireland, so I made my own (ahem!) out of a peeled, finely diced apple. I cooked it on a medium heat with a little water until softened and then blended it, which didn't make it very sauce-like. But, in it went anyway.

This makes a moist, very sweet, low-sized loaf so the slices are more like bars. 106 kcals per bar. Yum!

Ingredients

2 mashed bananas

1 tablespoon unsweetened applesauce/or one apple made into poor applesauce

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 dash salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 large egg

2 tablespoons nonfat milk (I used soya milk)

3/4 cup spelt flour

Method

• Preheat oven to 180°/350°F and lightly grease a 2lb loaf tin
• Place all ingredients but flour & baking powder in a large bowl and mix
• Sieve in flour and baking powder to wet ingredients
• Pour into loaf tin
• Cook for about 35 minutes - or until golden brown.
• Allow to cool before slicing