Cinnamon Oatmeal Banana Bread

I love bread.

I love bananas.

I love cinnamon.

I love bread that allows me to make grilled peanut butter and jelly sammiches for a snack and not feel bad about it.

 Totally unrelated: do you ever find that your pictures are super yellow-y?  The bread isn't so yellow...I need to work on my editing skills.  Blech.

 Back to the bread.  A little banana bread topped with chocolate peanut butter and bananas?  A little tribute to the King.  Except Elvis was nowhere on my mind when I was making this snack.  And eating it.  All I was thinking was "heavenly".

 Funny story about why this bread is so skinny.  As in narrow.  As in the pieces are not tall.  Wilberforce was standing next to me when I checked the bread 20 minutes before the buzzer went off.  He couldn't wait another 20 minutes, so we took it out.

Very tasty, but possibly not quite done.  So every time I cut a piece of bread, the whole loaf squished down a little more, and a little more, and a little more.  So now I have a squished loaf of delectable banana bread.

 Actually, right now I don't have any loaves of banana bread.

We ate it all.

Whoops.

Cinnamon Oatmeal Banana Bread
adapted from Joy The Baker


Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup oat flour
1/4 cup Stevia in the Raw (cup for cup)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon
3 tsp unsweetened applesauce
3 egg whites, beaten
3 large bananas, ripe 

1 cup rolled oats

Yield: 10 slices, 105 calories per slice

Preheat oven to 350°F. 

Grease a loaf pan and set aside.  In a large bowl, stir together dry ingredients including the oats and cinnamon.  In a smaller bowl, mash bananas; add applesauce and mix well.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well.  Batter will be fairly thick.

In a medium sized bowl, with an electric hand mixer, beat the egg whites until medium stiff peaks form.  Fold the egg whites into the batter in three additions.

Pour batter into pan and bake until top of loaf is firm to touch, 30-45 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes. Flip out and cool on a wire rack for another 10 minutes. Slice loaf into 10 equally sized slices.  

 Have you seen those new commercials for Walgreen's pharmacists?  They're super heros!! Doing gymnastics all over the store to get to a sneezing patient.  My employer doesn't make me look like a superhero.  Bummer.

 Also, I'm spreading the good word of PB2 all over the world.  And by world I mean my small little Colorado town, and only to the people who work with me.  So my message hasn't really been very widespread.  Whatev.

I ordered three cases of PB2 and my coworkers bought two cases worth!  They probably would have bought all three cases, but I'm a greedy little monster and kept a case at home to myself.

 Did I mention I have a loaf of Strawberry Mango Banana Bread in the oven right now?  It's time to take it out, so this blog post is O-V-E-R.

Adios.