The Best Banana Pumpkin Bread– Healthy and EASY!

Oh this was really good!  I’ll admit, sometimes when I am trying to use healthier ingredients on a traditional bread I wonder how it will turn out but let me just tell you, you will NOT be disappointed.  My husband who tends to not like anything “healthy” told me “Wow, that tastes great!”

I found this recipe (and modified it slightly) from The Purple Carrot 

This happens to be Dairy Free and (refined) Sugar Free

Ingredients: (for one loaf)

• 2 ripe bananas
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1/8 cup coconut oil
• 1 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/3 cup agave nectar
• 1/2 cup NuNaturals Baking Blend stevia sweetener – (if you don’t have this, you can just use 1/2 c white sugar, or try coconut palm sugar!)
• 1 cup white flour plus 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup oats
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 2 tsp. Cinnamon
• 1 tsp. Allspice

(I sprinkled coconut palm sugar on the top before baking, you could also use Sugar in the Raw, it forms a  yummy crystallization on top.)

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Mash bananas stir in all other wet ingredients.
• In a separate bowl, mix together all dry ingredients
• Add the dry mixture to the wet and stir
• Pour into greased loaf pan and bake for approx. 65 minutes.  In the mini loaf pans I baked for about 55 minutes (I made a double batch)

That’s it!! Easy and a great way to use up those bananas!  It was so moist and I loved the texture the oats brought to the bread.  It reminded me of my FAVORITE wheat bread recipe, if you haven’t tried that yet, go over there and mark it for later.  It’s to DIE for!!!!

If you use Pinterest, be sure and pin this for future reference  :-)

If you are wondering where to buy healthy ingredients for a good price these are my two favorite sites to buy from:

• iherb (get $5.00 off your first order with this link)
• vitacost (get $10.00 off your first order with this link)

ENJOY my FRIENDS! 
Linking to Simply Sugar and Gluten Free
~ Selina

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