Dairy-Free Banana Bread

That moment when you took too long to eat those bananas, your grocery budget is just too tight, and you feel compelled to make something of those over-ripe browning bananas in your fruit bowl. Enter banana bread! How does one make banana bread without butter? Well, I found out. It came out deliciously moist, not too sweet, and a perfectly crusty crust.

 Here is my recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup oil (I used canola)
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg (lets be honest, I prefer local farm eggs!)
• 1 and 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 mashed bananas

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. In mixer, add oils, sugar, and egg. Blend until mixed.
3. Meanwhile, mix dry ingredients in small bowl and mash bananas.
4. Add dry ingredients to mixer bowl and blend until mixed.
5. Add bananas, blend until mixed.
6. Pour in greased* baking loaf and bake for 1hr 10 min or until toothpick comes out clean.
7. Enjoy warm!

*I found a dairy/soy free cooking spray at Whole Foods that I now use to grease my cooking pans: Spectrum brand "Butter It Up!" Natural flavor spray oil. Ingredients: canola oil, sunflower oil, natural non-dairy flavor, annatto extract for color.