We interrupt this Memorial Day weekend to bring you… Secret Recipe Club! This month seems like it flew by. I swear, I just finished eating up my Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde from last month. But on to new and exciting recipes…
In case you forgot, members of the Secret Recipe Club are assigned a blog each month. Who has who is a secret until reveal day (today!). The mission is to choose a recipe from the assigned blog, make it, and share it!
I was super excited to be assigned to A Healthy Jalapeno this month, a blog I’ve been following for a long time. It’s written by Laura, a fellow military wife with a couple adorable pups who likes to cook healthy food, but still has a sweet tooth. Sound familiar?
I was totally intrigued by Laura’s recipe for Lemon Lime Basil Cookies, especially since I’ve got basil in my garden, but I wasn’t sure how they’d go over with cookie traditionalists (ahem, Nick). She’s also got a recipe for Ruby Red Grapefruit Bars, which look amazing and which I wish I’d seen sooner because I recently tried making something similar and they were kind of a failure!
It was hard to choose a recipe from so many awesome ones, but in the end, I chose a somewhat basic one. Ever since I made my Strawberry Banana Bread, it’s all I’ve been thinking about. Since it wasn’t healthy at all, I thought I’d try and squash my craving with Laura’s better for you version: Whole Wheat Banana Bread!
Honey Whole Wheat Banana Bread
(adapted from A Healthy Jalapeno)
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup no sugar added applesauce
- 3/4 cup honey
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, combine flours, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together applesauce, honey, eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Add banana mixture to flour mixture and stir until just combined. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.
Let bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
This looks delicious! Perfect healthy treat for my boys. Great pick for SRC!
Loving the sound of this recipe, I must try it soon! Good pick 🙂
I have made many banana bread recipes but never with honey and applesauce. Looks like a winner. Great pick!
This sounds so yummy! Great choice!!
Your pictures are so gorgeous! 🙂 The bread looks awesome. Happy Reveal Day!
That looks wonderful! I LOVE banana bread and my personal favorite recipe has whole wheat and applesauce in it too… great pick!!
looks lovely!
and I have 3 banana’s sitting on my counter right now 🙂
I could never get sick of banana bread! Looks great =)
I am so happy you choose this recipe… we loved it! So glad you liked it too!
Yum! Banana bread is always a good choice 🙂 Happy Reveal Day!
Love that you used honey instead of sugar! Genius!
I just made Banana Bread but it was all all-purpose flour…love the addition of whole wheat in yours! Great SRC pick!
Can these recipe be used in a bread maker instead of in the oven? I just got a bread maker and it’s all new to me :-).
Hi Kelly– I’m not sure— I’ve never used a bread maker!! I think bread makers are for yeasted breads, though. If your instructions say you can use it for quickbreads, then you should be able to make this one!