Brunch

Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread is for Dessert.

Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread takes 30 minutes to prepare.

Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread takes 60 minutes to cook.

Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread makes 24 servings.

The ingredients for Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread are:

1 cup butter
1 cup Splenda brown sugar
1 1/2 cups Splenda no calorie sugar
5 med. bananas, mash
4 eggs
1 cup fat free sour cream
1/2 cup crushed pineapple, drained
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup shredded coconut, lightly toasted (put 2 Tbsp. aside for topping)
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup bread flour
1/2 cup flax seed meal
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. raw sugar (for topping)

Here is how you make Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 loaf pans.2. Cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy.3. Beat in mashed bananas.4. Beat in eggs one at a time.5. Mix in sour cream, pineapple, vanilla, and (all but 2 Tbsp.) coconut. Mix until completely incorporated.6. In a small bowl, blend together the flours, flax seed meal, soda, powder and salt. Add to the wet ingredients. Mix well.7. Divide evenly into 2 prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle each top with 1 Tbsp. raw sugar and coconut (this give the tops a nice crunch).8. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of each loaf comes out clean. 9. Cool for 5 minutes and turn out onto a serving plate.Number of Servings: 24Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LLKOOLMOM5.

The nutritional information for Laura's Best Tropical Banana Bread is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 24
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 226.8

• Total Fat: 11.8 g
• Cholesterol: 57.0 mg
• Sodium: 2,531.1 mg
• Total Carbs: 27.9 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.7 g
• Protein: 4.3 g