Make a delicious and fruity quick bread for breakfast or snacks this week.
These breads don’t require any yeast or rising time, so they come together in no time.
Fruit’s natural sweetness means that these delicious breads don’t require much added sugar either.
Photography: Caitlin Bensel, Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland, Food Styling: Chelsea Zimmer
The banana adds sweetness to this quick-bread mashup for just the right flavor without too much added sugar.
Here, it also lends a slight tanginess to the winning combination of bananas and blueberries.
To make muffins instead, see Muffin Variation.
Photography: Caitlin Bensel, Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland, Food Styling: Chelsea Zimmer
Pineapple Coconut Banana Bread
This lightened-up banana bread packs plenty of tropical flavor.
For an extra-decadent treat, serve each slice with a scoop of sliced strawberries.
It’s delicious on its own or topped with the optional lemon-sugar glaze.
And just as too-ripe bananas make the best banana bread, very ripe figs are ideal here.
Add bittersweet chocolate chips for a decadent treat.
Serve it with butter or cream cheese, and add a little sugar-free apricot jam for extra zing.
Enjoy it as a snack or give it as a gift.
This creative, diabetes-friendly recipe is the perfect solution for using over-ripe bananas and is easy to make.
Source: Diabetic Living Magazine
Double Apricot Bread
This low-fat quick bread has twice the apricot flavor!
Try a slice for breakfast or for a late afternoon snack.
Source: EatingWell Magazine, October/November 2005
Photography: Caitlin Bensel, Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland, Food Styling: Chelsea Zimmer
