Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 4 tablespoons butter melted
• ½ cup apple sauce
• ½ cup mashed bananas (about 1 small banana)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup castor sugar
• ¼ cup dark brown sugar
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• ½ cup raisins
• ½ cup walnuts chopped
• 1 tablespoon rolled oats (not the quick cooking)

 

Method:

• Preheat oven to 350 F.  Line a bottom of sides of a 9×5 inch loaf pan with waxed paper and grease with butter
• In a bowl, lightly beat the egg.  Beat in the butter
• Stir in apple sauce, bananas, vanilla extract and both sugars
• In a separate bowl sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
• Add dry ingredients into the banana mixture in three batches
• Fold in raisins and walnuts and mix well.
• Pour into the prepared pan and sprinkle evenly the rolled oats.
• Bake for about an hour or until a tooth pick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean
• Let stand in the loaf pan for about 10 minutes and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
• Makes 1 loaf