Honey and Spelt Banana Bread

This recipe has a delicious pairing of spelt and oat flours, which give the bread a warm, nutty flavor. It is moist and dense, but it must be made with very ripe bananas.

The flavor of ripe bananas and honey will bring a complex sweetness not obtainable by conventional white sugar. Go ahead and give it a try!

 

 

 

Dry Ingredients
2 cups spelt flour
1 cup oat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1⁄2 tsp. baking powder
1⁄2 tsp. salt
1 1⁄2 tsp. cinnamon

Wet Ingredients
3 very ripe bananas
1⁄2 cup maple syrup
1 stick butter, melted and cooled
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 eggs

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a glass loaf pan with parchment paper so that it forms a "sling" (one solid piece that goes from side to bottom to side, with open ends). Grease the ends of the pan.
3. Sift spelt flour, measure two cups. Sift oat flour, measure one cup.
4. Put flours together in sifter with baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon. Sift into large mixing bowl and set aside.
5. In separate mixing bowl, mash bananas with fork or potato masher until smooth.
6. Add honey, mixing with wire wisk until fully combined.
7. Wisk in eggs, one at a time.
8. Add melted butter and vanilla to wet ingredients and mix well.
9. Add wet mixture to dry ingredients all at once and combine with as few a strokes as possible. Mixture will be slightly lumpy.
10. Pour into parchment lined glass loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 mins. Let cool 10 mins and remove to wire cooling rack.
11. When fully cooled, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and store for 5-7 days.