This is a delicious moist quickbread that everyone will love. Eat it warm out of the oven, or if there are any leftovers toast for breakfast the next morning. You can slice the bread and store between wax or parchment paper and freeze. That way you can enjoy any morning. The use of vinegar with baking soda is a vegan baking trick. It gives a quick rise that helps compensate for the lack of egg in this recipe. The key to it working is to add the vinegar at the last moment and put in the oven as quick as possible. Unlike baking powder, baking soda has one rise.
Banana Bread
This is a delicious moist quickbread that everyone will love. Eat it warm out of the oven, or if there are any leftovers toast for breakfast the next morning. You can slice the bread and store between wax or parchment paper and freeze. That way you can enjoy any morning. The use of vinegar with baking soda is a vegan baking trick. It gives a quick rise that helps compensate for the lack of egg in this recipe. The key to it working is to add the vinegar at the last moment and put in the oven as quick as possible. Unlike baking powder, baking soda has one rise.
Ingredients
Method
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan; set aside. Combine the baking mix, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl; set aside.
- Mix mashed bananas, yogurt, butter, vinegar and vanilla with wooden spoon in medium bowl. Lightly fold banana mixture into dry ingredients with rubber spatula until just combined and batter looks thick and chunky. Quickly scrape batter into prepared loaf pan; bake until loaf is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 to 65 minutes. Cool in pan for 5 to 10 minutes, then transfer to wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Notes
Per serving — Phe: 25.7 mg | Protein: 0.54 g | Calories: 177 | PKU exchanges: 1.71
*If you cannot get So Delicious yogurt, add an extra banana and enough rice milk to equal 170 gm total. You would need to adjust the phe (So Delicious is 30 mg per container).
To make muffins, bake in muffin tin for 25 to 30 mins. For mini muffins (36), bake 12 to 15 mins.
Need extra calories: cube a slice of banana bread, deep fry and toss in cinnamon sugar. Oh my deliciousness! You are welcome. Reader Q&A:
Q: Can I substitute Cambrooke baking mix for the flour listed in the banana bread recipe? At 5 exchanges per 1 cup, my daughter cannot eat it. Her tolerance is 12 exchanges per day. A: It has not been tested with Cambrooke baking mix so I am not sure. How old is your daughter? If she is young, does she have a phe reserve in her formula still? While there is 5 exchanges in a cup of CFL baking mix, the end product has 1.7 exchanges per muffin. If that is too high, you can reduce the cake flour in the baking mix to 1/2 cup, increase the wheat starch by the same amount and add an extra 1/4 tsp xanthan gum and get similar results. Amber also has some banana bread muffins that are .9 exchanges (https://cookforlove.org/recipes/detail/77263) and a mini banana bread that is 1.4 exchanges (https://cookforlove.org/recipes/detail/77557).
Brenda
Q: Do you happen to know how much the calories are increased by when deep frying and covering in cinnamon sugar? Just approximately. I wouldn’t even know where to begin to calculate it! Thank you! A: I am TOTALLY guessing here, but let’s assume that a cube absorbs about 1/4 tsp oil when fried and then 1/4 to 1/2 tsp cinnamon sugar gets stuck on — that would increase kcal by approximately 15 per cube.
Q: Great flavor, but really dense. Did I do something wrong? I put batter in mini muffin pan. Would that have made a difference? A: They should not be dense. Did you add the vinegar in at the last minute and get them the oven quickly?
Q: If I wanted to make these for my 10 month old, would I be able to omit the sugar? Or at least some of the sugar? I don’t have much experience with PKU baking yet and don’t know if it will affect the outcome. Thanks! A: You can easily reduce the sugar in most baked goods by 25% with little difference in the texture, etc. I have not tried with the banana bread, but am guessing 25% will be absolutely fine and you might even be able to reduce by 50% since it is a quick bread (versus a creamed cake where you are creaming the butter and sugar). Know that you can bake the bread into mini muffins — they freeze great and are an easy snack (you can do this with all of the muffins and quick breads). — Brenda
Q: When it says one container of yogurt – what brand do you use and what is the weight of the container? A: So delicious coconut yogurt — If you toggle between unit and grams above the ingredient list, the weight is there (150 gm).
Need extra calories: cube a slice of banana bread, deep fry and toss in cinnamon sugar. Oh my deliciousness! You are welcome. Reader Q&A:
Q: Can I substitute Cambrooke baking mix for the flour listed in the banana bread recipe? At 5 exchanges per 1 cup, my daughter cannot eat it. Her tolerance is 12 exchanges per day. A: It has not been tested with Cambrooke baking mix so I am not sure. How old is your daughter? If she is young, does she have a phe reserve in her formula still? While there is 5 exchanges in a cup of CFL baking mix, the end product has 1.7 exchanges per muffin. If that is too high, you can reduce the cake flour in the baking mix to 1/2 cup, increase the wheat starch by the same amount and add an extra 1/4 tsp xanthan gum and get similar results. Amber also has some banana bread muffins that are .9 exchanges (https://cookforlove.org/recipes/detail/77263) and a mini banana bread that is 1.4 exchanges (https://cookforlove.org/recipes/detail/77557).
Brenda
Q: Do you happen to know how much the calories are increased by when deep frying and covering in cinnamon sugar? Just approximately. I wouldn’t even know where to begin to calculate it! Thank you! A: I am TOTALLY guessing here, but let’s assume that a cube absorbs about 1/4 tsp oil when fried and then 1/4 to 1/2 tsp cinnamon sugar gets stuck on — that would increase kcal by approximately 15 per cube.
Q: Great flavor, but really dense. Did I do something wrong? I put batter in mini muffin pan. Would that have made a difference? A: They should not be dense. Did you add the vinegar in at the last minute and get them the oven quickly?
Q: If I wanted to make these for my 10 month old, would I be able to omit the sugar? Or at least some of the sugar? I don’t have much experience with PKU baking yet and don’t know if it will affect the outcome. Thanks! A: You can easily reduce the sugar in most baked goods by 25% with little difference in the texture, etc. I have not tried with the banana bread, but am guessing 25% will be absolutely fine and you might even be able to reduce by 50% since it is a quick bread (versus a creamed cake where you are creaming the butter and sugar). Know that you can bake the bread into mini muffins — they freeze great and are an easy snack (you can do this with all of the muffins and quick breads). — Brenda
Q: When it says one container of yogurt – what brand do you use and what is the weight of the container? A: So delicious coconut yogurt — If you toggle between unit and grams above the ingredient list, the weight is there (150 gm).