Spiced Recipe ~ Spiced Maple Banana Bread

This banana bread is sweetened with maple syrup and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg for the perfect fall treat.

Ingredients

• nonstick cooking spray
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3 ripe bananas
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• ⅓ cup maple syrup
• ⅓ cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¾ cup chopped walnuts

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan with nonstick spray.
2. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in a bowl. Set aside.
3. Mash bananas until mostly smooth but some chunks remain. Add eggs, oil, maple syrup, sugar, and vanilla extract; mix with a wooden spoon. Add flour mixture and walnuts. Mix just until flour is moistened. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
4. Bake in the preheated oven, rotating pan halfway through, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert bread onto the wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

• calories346.2
• carbohydrateContent42.4 g
• cholesterolContent37.2 mg
• fatContent18.1 g
• fiberContent2.3 g
• proteinContent5.6 g
• saturatedFatContent2.7 g
• sodiumContent263 mg
• sugarContent17.7 g