Remember that Banana Oat Bread recipe I posted? Well I worked on it a bit. Now I double it and make two rather different loaves…
Spiced Fruit and Banana Cocoa Breakfast Breads
This recipe makes two loaves of breakfast bread. Neither of these are very sweet. I created them because I was tired of eating oatmeal porridge every morning. They are high in fiber, low in saturated fat and sugar, and have a bit of protein.
8 mashed bananas
1 egg beaten into ¾ cup lowfat cottage cheese with non fat milk poured in to make up a cup mixture
2 Tbsp vanilla
4 Tbps sugar
4 Tbsp molasses
1&½ Tbsp cold coffee
½ Tbsp cinnamon
½ Tbsp ground ginger
2&1/2 Tbsps cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
½ cup flour
1 cup whole old fashioned oats
1&½ cups oat flour (I make this by blitzing whole, old fashioned oats with a hand blender until it is the texture of a rough flour)
4 Tbsp avocado oil
½ cup walnuts, chopped
1 roasted peach or nectarine, chopped
¾ cup mixed frozen berries
Whisk together oat flour, flour, whole oats, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and chopped walnuts. Separate this mixture into equal halves and set aside.
Mix together the mashed bananas, the egg/cottage cheese/ milk mixture, vanilla, sugar and molasses. Separate this mixture into equal halves in a pair of large bowls. In one bowl add cold coffee and cocoa powder (and a dash of cinnamon if you like). Into the other bowl add roasted peach or nectarine, cinnamon and ginger.
Add the dry flour mixtures to each of your wet mixtures and gently fold together. Before you finish mixing the spiced fruit batter add your frozen berries. Add 2 Tbsp of avocado oil to each mixture. Do not over mix. Add the batters to 2 loaf pans or square 9x9 pans that have been lightly greased.
Bake these at 350, giving them a half turn at 15 minutes. Check them at 30 minutes. If you are cooking in a 9x9 pan your bread will be done quicker. You may have to bake these for 45 to 50 minutes. It should be set and a tester should come out with a few crumbs but not wet. Let these cool in the pan and then turn out.
Next time I make these I think I will add roasted cherries to the Banana Cocoa better. Will let you guys know how it works out.
