Stevia Banana Bread

Since I had a bunch of overripe organic bananas on hand today, I decided to make banana bread (yum!) and try baking with stevia for the first time. I gathered the ingredients below and got to work:

Bowl #1

• 2 eggs
• 3 small mashed bananas
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg

Bowl #2

• 2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp stevia powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt

I mixed all of the ingredients of bowl #1 and bowl #2 separately, then slowly folded the dry ingredients into the wet. I poured the mixture into a 5″ x 9″ pan (greased with coconut oil- yum!) and baked it for 1 hour at 350 degrees.

I could barely wait for the bread to finish baking (because the smell was so amazing!) and cut myself a piece almost immediately after it was finished. I spread some butter on my slice and it tasted like a sweet, healthy snack.

This bread was not as sweet as banana breads I have baked in the past using white flour, vegetable oil, and cups of sugar, but it was slightly sweet and still delicious. When I make this again I think I will add an extra banana and maybe some chopped walnuts to give it even more flavor.

If you try this out, let me know what you think! Or maybe you have your own healthy banana bread recipe you’d like to share with us… we’d love to hear about it!