Spelt Banana Bread
Description
If you are looking for a variation on banana bread, this recipe incorporating spelt flour for added nutrition, and both mashed and diced bananas for texture, is for you.
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 2 cups spelt flour
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup sour cream
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 ripe bananas
- 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans, or more to taste (optional)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 8 1/2x4 1/2-inch loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- Combine spelt flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium-sized bowl and set aside.
- Beat eggs in a large bowl until light yellow in color. Stir in sour cream, applesauce, maple syrup, and vanilla extract. Mash 2 bananas and add to the egg mixture. Dice remaining bananas and add to the bowl. Stir in 1 cup pecans. Pour flour mixture into the bowl with the egg-banana mixture and and stir just until flour is incorporated; do not over mix.
- Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan and sprinkle 2 tablespoons pecans on top.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes.
- Place pan on a rack to cool, about 10 minutes. Turn loaf out onto the rack to cool completely.
