BANANA NUT CRAISIN BREAD

BANANA NUT CRAISIN BREAD image

Number Of Ingredients 18

2/3 cup 1% milk
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 1/2 cups cake flour or whole wheat flour (your choice)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 stick unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup Craisins
3 very ripe medium bananas
1 cup (3 oz) walnuts, chopped
PAM cooking spray

Steps:

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Spray PAM to Grease a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan. Mix together milk and lemon juice and let stand until milk curdles, about 1 minute. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon and baking soda in a bowl. Beat together butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until combined, then beat in bananas, applesauce & vanilla until combined. Add flour mixture to banana mixture alternately with milk, mixing at low speed just until batter is smooth. Stir in craisins & walnuts. Pour into loaf pan and bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center of bread comes out clean, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Cool bread in pan for 3 minutes, then remove from pan an continue cooling on a rack to cool completely.