This cold cloudy weather (yes, for Floridians, anything below 70 is the arctic freeze) makes me want to deep fry or bake. I haven't made banana bread in a while, but I was out of bananas. But had Gala apples. And decided to replace bananas with apples. I knew it would be a bit dry as bananas provide a lot of moisture in the bread, and I ended up using about 3/4 cup of milk in the recipe. I could have used apple sauce (which I didn't have), or apple juice which I did have, but for some reason milk sounded good. And the bread turned out rich, moist and delicious! This is the same recipe for my eggless banana bread which I tweaked to use flax meal for eggs. The banana bread doesn't use any flax meal and I simply leave out the eggs.

Prep Time | 20 minutes |
Cook Time | 50 minutes |
Servings |
loaves
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Ingredients
- 3 cups Flour Used a mix of 1.5 cups AP flour, and 1.5 cups of whole wheat/atta
- 2 cups sugar I reduced to roughly 1.5 cups of sugar - half raw sugar, half coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 2 medium apples, diced
- 2/3 cup avocado or any mild cooking oil
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 12 tbsp luke warm water 3 tbsp luke warm water + 1 tbsp of flax meal for each egg; the recipe calls for 4 eggs
- 4 tbsp flax meal, or flax seeds powdered
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Measure out and gather ingredients; mix the flax meal in the water and let it rest for about 10 minutes.
- Take the flour in a wide deep bowl; preheat oven to 350
- add all the dry ingredients (baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon powder)
- Add the oil, followed bu the flax meal egg
- At this point, I started mixing it and found that it was too dry without the moisture of the bananas, and ended up adding about 3/4 cup of milk, after which it came together easily
- Add the diced apples, and walnuts
- Pour into two loaf pans, greased on the bottom and sides
- Bake for 50 minutes in a preheated 350 deg oven
- Take out and cool on a wire rack
- Slice when cooled down; this turned out very moist, and the bread deliciously broke off into chunks, but managed to slice once loaf
- Enjoy with a cup of coffee/tea!
Recipe Notes
Substitutions:
4 eggs replaced with 12 tbsp luke warm water + 4 tbsp flax meal
2 cups white sugar replaced with 3/4 cup raw sugar + 3/4 cup coconut sugar
Added 3/4 cup of whole milk
Make it vegan:
Replace milk with apple sauce, apple juice of any nut milk such as almond milk
Verdict:
Raj says he can't decide which he likes better - banana or apple!
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