Let them eat cake... or in this case bread!

I LOVE bread! Honestly, I love bread in almost any form possible.  Wheat bread, yum! Baguettes, yum! Rolls, yum! Bagels, yum! You get the hint.  Take bread, add more yummy ingredients, and remove some of the processed stuff and I'm drooling!

Today's adventure in the kitchen was making a banana raspberry bread without so much sugar.  While I will ALWAYS eat chocolate, because seriously who could give that up, I want to limit my refined sugar intake.  I have to stay, it smells and tastes delicious.  It's not a light and airy as those boxed quick breads but I think it's much better for you.

I started with three very ripe bananas and 1 1/2 cups of frozen raspberries.  You can use fresh raspberries, I just prefer how the frozen ones mash.  While mashing those I put just under 3 cups of old-fashioned oats in my blender and turned it on
low for several minutes.  I also subbed honey for the brown sugar and unsweetened applesauce for the eggs.  After adding all the ingredients to one bowl, I mixed them up and added them to the bread pan.  Baked it at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes and now have a bread I wish I didn't have to share.

Chocolate Raspberry Banana Oatmeal Bread

Ingredients

3 cups of old-fashioned oats

3 very ripe bananas

1 1/2 cups raspberries

1 1/2 teaspoons baking power

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon honey

1/2 cup apple sauce

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x5 loaf pan.  

Make oat flour but placing 3 cups of oats in blender and blending until it resembles flour.  While the oats are blending mash the bananas and raspberries in a medium to large mixing bowl.  

To the banana and raspberry mash add 2 cups of the oat flour (there will be a little extra which you can put aside for another use) and all other ingredients.  Mix well and add to the loaf pan.  Does anyone really want to mix all the wet ingredients in one bowl, all the dry ingredients in another, and blend slowly if they don't have to?  Plus, who wants more than 1 dirty bowl to wash?

Bake for 35-40 minutes and done! Now let it cool.  Seriously, this step sucks but is a must if you don't want it to get stuck to the bottom of the pan, burn your fingers, or burn your mouth.