Whole Wheat Banana Bread with Flaxseed and Oats

Description

Banana bread without the guilt… This bread is hard to beat because it is very flavorful and full of the good stuff. No white flour, only wheat, flaxseed meal, and oats mixed with buttermilk and eggs, making for a healthy start or snack during the day.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
  • ⅔ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup flaxseed meal
  • ⅓ cup rolled oats
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 tablespoons butter, melted
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 bananas, mashed

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
  2. Mix whole wheat flour
  3. brown sugar
  4. flaxseed meal
  5. oats
  6. white sugar
  7. baking powder
  8. baking soda
  9. and salt together in a large bowl.
  10. Combine eggs
  11. butter
  12. 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon butter milk
  13. and vanilla extract in another bowl. Stir in flour mixture. Add bananas; mix until batter is well-combined. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.
  14. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
  15. 50 minutes to 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool
  16. about 25 minutes.

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 50 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Servings: 12

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