Healthy Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 0.8 cup bananas ripe mashed ()
• 5 tablespoons butter softened
• 2 large eggs 
• 6.8 ounces flour all-purpose
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 0.1 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 0.3 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 0.5 cup sugar 
• 0.3 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 6 ounce carton vanilla yogurt low-fat

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• knife
• wire rack
• blender
• loaf pan
• measuring cup

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 5 minutes).
3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and ground cloves.
5. Add flour mixture and yogurt alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Fold in bananas and vanilla.
6. Pour batter into an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray.
7. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.