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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Banana Bread/Muffins Two Ways!

The other day I felt like baking and had a bunch of over ripe bananas so here we go!  One is a more basic, gluten and refined-sugar free banana bread and the other is a double chocolate banana bread.

Banana Bread/Muffins with Chocolate Chips:

3 very ripe bananas
1/2 cup raw honey (pure maple syrup could work or a version of sugar)
1/3 cup unsweet applesauce
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
3 Tbsp avocado oil
2 cups flour blend (I used 1 cup brown rice flour and 1 cup ground gluten-free oats finely ground)
2 Tbsp ground chia seeds
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup enjoy life chocolate chips

1.  Mash bananas with masher or in a mixer.  Add vanilla, eggs, oil, applesauce/honey and combine well.
2.  Mix all dry ingredients together and add the the wet mixture until well combined.
3.  Stir in chocolate chips last and spoon into loaf pan or muffin tin.
4.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Double Chocolate Banana Bread:

3 very ripe bananas
1/2 cup unsweet applesauce
1/2 cup raw honey or maple syrup (I did a mixture of the two)
1 tsp vanilla
1 large egg
1 cup flour blend (I did 1/2 cup rice flour and 1/2 cup ground oat flour)
2 Tbsp ground chia seed
1/3 cup raw cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
sprinkle sea salt
2/3 cup enjoy life chocolate chips

1.  Mash bananas and add wet ingredients (applesauce, sweetener, vanilla, egg)
2.  Add dry ingredients and combine well.
3.  Fold in the chocolate chips (saving a handful for decoration on the top)
4.  Put mix in a baking pan and sprinkle chocolate  chips on top.  
5.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until knife comes out (almost) clean.

Enjoy!



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