Banana Bread With a Twist

The one good thing about having four test the week before fall break is that this three day week has included very little school work, which has been a nice break from my usual lack of free time schedule due to an overload of anatomy and every other science imaginable.  So with this wonderful gift called free time that has shown up in my schedule this week, I have been doing lots of baking and cooking.  This is one of my favorite things to do, so whenever I have the time to, I always take full advantage of it.
Yesterday, my friend Katherine and I decided to bake a delicious recipe I found on Pinterest for fudge brownie cupcakes with cookie dough frosting.  I unfortunately don't have any pictures, but they turned out just as good as they sound!  The recipe for those wonderful creations can be found here.
Today, I decided to experiment with one of my favorite things to bake, banana bread.  Being a nutrition major and all, I love to find good foods that are also good for you.  I messed around a little with the recipe for banana bread that I usually use to give it a healthier touch with the same great taste.  And I must say, I was very pleased with the result!

Health Nut Banana Bread

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Unbleached Whole Wheat flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup packed brown sugar

3 mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 cup low-fat vanilla Greek yogurt
1/4 cup grape seed oil
2 egg whites
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350°. Grease bottom of loaf pans.

2. Mix dry banana bread ingredients in a large bowl. 

3. Whisk together the milk, yogurt, egg whites and bananas. 

4. Pour into the flour mixture and combine until just moistened and slightly lumpy. Pour into loaf pan.

5. Bake 1 hour or until an inserted toothpick comes out of the banana bread cleanly.

                      

After tasting the banana bread, you would never know that it did not contain white sugar or butter because it still taste wonderful.  I'm sure I will have more food related blog posts to come because of my random few days with free time :)