Banana Bread and Honey Frozen Yogurt

This banana bread turned out delicious! I used this recipe from SimplyRecipies.com, with some altering. (Instead of all purpose flour, I used 3/4 c. whole wheat and 3/4 c. brown rice flour, also I added 1/3 c. of roasted sesame seeds.)

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup) *i used 3/4 c.
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour *i used 3/4c. whole wheat + 3/4 c. brown rice flour
• *plus 1/3 c. roasted sesame seeds

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour *i took out at 50 mins). Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

Makes one loaf. 

For the honey frozen yogurt I looked up several recipes online, and they were very similar. So, i just kinda improvised. next time around I would add some lemon juice, use a little less honey, and add a little sugar. also, this would be good with small pieces of candied nuts!

Ingredients

• 3 c. Greek Style Yogurt (strained with cheese cloth in fridge for a few hours to get rid of excess liquid)
• 1/3c. honey (or to taste)
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/4 c. toasted pine nuts (or to taste)

Combined strained yogurt, honey and vanilla chill. Use ice cream maker as directed. Stir in nuts after removing from ice cream maker, freeze or serve!

I drizzled honey, sprinkled sesame seeds and added a mint leaf before serving.