Banana Bread

The Diabetic Newsletter

We diabetics need something sweet that we can eat without sending our glucose reading into another world. This is a good dessert for us to enjoy without feeling guilty.

Ingredients

2¼ cup all-purpose flour
⅔ cup honey-crunch wheat germ
¼ teaspoon baking Soda
½ cup rolled oats, uncooked
¼ cup brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup egg substitute, thawed
⅓ cup walnuts, chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1½ sticks margarine
1½ cup mashed bananas
6 ounce can frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed

Cooking Method

1. Preheat oven to 350º F.
2. Grease 9"x5" loaf pan.
3. In large bowl, mix first 7 ingredients.
4. With pastry blender, cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
5. Stir in bananas, undiluted apple-juice concentrate, egg substitute, walnuts, and vanilla just until flour is moistened.
6. Spoon batter into pan.
7. Bake 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center of bread comes out clean.
8. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool slightly.
9. Serve warm, or cool completely to serve later.