Banana-Coconut Oatmeal Bread
By: HyeThymeCafe
Published: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 7:06pm

Ingredients




1 1/4 cups flour
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 lg egg
2 lg egg whites
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 over-ripe bananas
1 cup old fashioned oats
1/2 cup sweetened flaked or shredded coconut

Preparation

1 Use a fork to whisk dry ingredients in a medium bowl 2 Mash bananas with your fork - I do it on a piece of waxed paper 3 Whisk your egg and whites in a measuring cup or small bowl 4 Add the vanilla and canola oil to the egg 5 Add the bananas and egg mixture to the dry ingredients 6 Mix well 7 Pour into greased loaf pan (or sprayed with baking spray) 8 Bake at 350 for 45-55" until tests done 9 Let cool on rack in pan for 5" before inverting from pan to finish cooling

About


I was trying to come up with something different to do with some rapidly aging bananas.  Came across a beautiful looking Banana Oatmeal Bread on a Weight Watchers site.  I added the vanilla, cinnamon, and coconut, and because I only had dark brown sugar, I split the different and used half white and half dark.  You can definitely feel the oatmeal aspect of this recipe, so the closest bread I can equate it to would be a Date Nut Bread.  I like it as is, but I'm thinking it would be really good grilled up for breakfast in a tiny bit of butter.  Yumm!