Ingredients
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1/2 cup butter
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3/4 cup brown sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1 cup whole wheat flour
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1/2 cup unbleached flour
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1 teaspoon baking soda
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1 1/4 cups mashed bananas (2 large or 3 small)
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1/4 cup yogurt or 1/4 cup sour cream
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1 cup walnuts, chopped
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1/2 cup carob chips or 1/2 cup chocolate chips
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1/2 cup raisins
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1 -2 tablespoon icing sugar, for dusting
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1 large egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl cream butter and sugar together until very light and creamy.
- Beat in egg.
- Add vanilla extract and blend, set aside.
- Into a medium bowl or on a sheet of wax paper sift together whole wheat, unbleached flours and baking soda.
- In a small bowl blend buttermilk and mashed banana.
- Add dry ingredients alternately with the banana mixture to the butter mixture.
- Stirring just enought to combine well.
- Stir in walnuts and chocolate chips, raisins if you like.
- Turn into a greased and floured 9 x 5 loaf pan or bundt cake pan.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes on middle rack.
- Until tooth pick comes out clean.
- Let cool in pan for 5- 10 minutes.
- Remove from pan and cool on rack.
- After it is cooled just a light dusting with icing sugar if you like.