| This is really a banana bread recipe baked in mini-bundt pans, so
I wasnt sure whether to post it under Breads or Desserts. These mini-loaves are a
treat served plain with a pot of homemade soup, or you can dress them up with glaze and
toppings and serve as dessert.
There’s a wonderful
recipe book full of sugar-free desserts,
Sweet & Natural Baking by Mani Niall. This is
a slightly lower-fat version of his Faux-Nuts recipe.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray mini-bundt pans with olive
oil cooking spray and dust with whole wheat pastry flour. Tap out excess flour.
2. In large bowl, blend together:
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp salt
3. In medium bowl, blend with an electric hand-held mixer
for 2 minutes:
2 eggs (or equivalent in
egg whites)
1 cup Wax Orchards
Fruit Sweet
3 Tbsp olive oil
3 Tbsp rice milk
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla
4. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and beat for
an additional 2 minutes.
5. Stir in:
3 ripe bananas, mashed
6. Fill mini-bundt pans
about 2/3 full with batter. Bake 15-18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes
out clean. Let cool before inverting onto waxed paper (you may need to gently loosen edges
with a knife first). Cool completely.
7 . To dress up mini-cakes, in small heavy saucepan bring to full
boil:
1 cup
Wax Orchards Fruit Sweet
8 . Prepare small bowls of:
Fruit Sweet glaze
Chopped walnuts
Unsweetened coconut
Dark chocolate shavings
9. Dip mini-cakes into glaze, and
then into toppings. Makes nine (9) 4" mini-cakes.
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