Cinnamon Banana Bread

Today I made another banana bread. I believe it's the 3rd banana bread recipe I've put up in the blog but it is just as good, probably the best one!! It is so moist and dense and full of banana flavour. The crusty is slightly smokey but the inside is so fluffy and soft. It uses yoghurt in the batter which keeps the bread moist and smooth. Yoghurt in bake goods is so good indeed I should use it more often. By the way sour cream would do the same too but it does contain more fat than yoghurt.
I have kept the banana bread plain as it is but you can just as easily mix in chocolate chips, rolled oats, some chopped walnuts or even some chopped apples.

Cinnamon Banana Bread
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup applesauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 Overripe bananas, mashed (about 1.5 cup)
1/2 cup plain natural yoghurt
1 cup white all-purplse flour
1/2 cup wholemeal plain flour
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

1) Pre-heat oven to 175 degrees C
2) In a mixing bowl, cream together the oil, applesauce and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix well after each addition. Add vanilla, bananas and yoghurt and combine well.
3) In a separate mixing bowl, sift together the flour, wheat germ, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Make a well in the centre and pour in the wet ingredients. Gentle fold the mixture until the dry ingredients are just incorporated. Be careful not to overmix.
4) Pour batter into a lined or silicon loaf tin and smooth the top. Bake for about 60 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to finish cooling.The batter will remain slightly lumpy. Don't overmix or you'll get tough instead fluffy bread.


I have officially become one of those people who like to browse around cookware stores. Today I went to DFO hoping to do some trans-seasonal shopping. Instead of winter clothes, I ended up getting a baking dish and a kitchen scale! It's one of those small mechanical scale that looks just like the one we have at home. But I really need a kitchen scale though - I am sick of having to convert measurements from weight to cups everytime I use a recipe written by a British cook!