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Banana cake/cookies sugar free recipes please?

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LimeFlower · 28/02/2013 21:56

I've got a bunch of 6 bananas with skins going brown.Any ideas?All recipes that I had a look at use sugar.I'd like to give it to 9 mo DS and I'm trying to avoid sweetening things.Many thanks :)

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TotallyEggFlipped · 28/02/2013 22:01

This makes moist, cakey flapjack-ish buns

Blend up 120g dates with a cup of water then mash in 2 bananas. Mix with 400g oats, some cinnamon and 100g of sultanas.
You should have fairly a moist mixture
Bake it at 170C for 35-40mins in muffin cases.

(You can freeze bananas quite well too)

FlutterClutter · 28/02/2013 22:03

healthy as you like - just 2 ingredients!

LimeFlower · 28/02/2013 22:15

Thanks for the recipes,now i'm itchy to go the kitchen and start but...no oats in the house so will have a trip to the shop tomorrow.
Totally i don't like dates,any chance to substitute them for 1 more banana?
Flutter this recipe sounds fantastic!

Thank you very much

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TotallyEggFlipped · 28/02/2013 22:32

I'm sure it'd work with more banana instead. Or substitute sultanas and blitz them. Or apple purée.

Or try this

LimeFlower · 28/02/2013 22:34

Getting better and better :)

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TotallyEggFlipped · 28/02/2013 22:36

I'm pretty sure there's a low sugar banana bread recipe on the recipes board too.

LakeFlyPie · 28/02/2013 22:43

The 2 ingredient cookies sound great.

I usually chop ripe black bananas into chunks and freeze, then blend in food processor until it magically becomes creamy banana ice cream.
Takes quite a bit of blending, but is 1 ingredient ice cream!
Although if you want to add a slosh of cream or evaporated milk that does make it a 2 ingredient luxury version Grin

TotallyEggFlipped · 01/03/2013 21:52

This looks good

LimeFlower · 01/03/2013 23:43

Right then,I made the cake from BLW website,thanks for the link Totally
I substituted some flour for oatmeal and will report how it turned out(just turned the oven off)

I still have half a bunch of bananas left so will probably make some icecream damn you LakeFlyPie as I need to lose some weight! Grin

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TotallyEggFlipped · 02/03/2013 13:00

There's a baked oat cake recipe in the baby led weaning cookbook that you could add mashed ripe banana to. Or you could probably used mashed banana instead of the apple:

2tbsp oil, plus extra for greasing
1 large apple
Approx 80g raisins/sultanas
Few pinches of ground cinnamon
1-2tbsp water
200g oatmeal (or blended up porridge oats/instant oat cereal, which would add vitamins)
1tsp baking powder
220ml milk
1 egg, beaten

Preheat oven to 180C & lightly grease a 500g (1lb) loaf tin.
Peel, core & slice the apple & put it in a pan with the raisins, cinnamon & water then cook gently until the apple is soft then mash it. (I microwaved it instead). Mix well with the raisins.
Put all the other ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Add the apple & raisin mixture. (You could add mashed banana here too) mix it all up.
Pour into loaf tin and bake for about 30 minutes.

It's lovely warm or cold and you can cut it into slices and freeze it too.

LakeFlyPie · 02/03/2013 22:56

Hey, don't damn me Shock it's frozen bananas pretending to be ice cream not HaagenDaz's Grin

Tried the 2 ingredient "cookies" and can report they tasted as you might expect cookies with no butter, sugar or flour to taste.
Palatable in a dense, banana porridgey kind of a way.
Managed to pass them off on the 2 yr old as banana cookies and he was quite happy, DS1 (4.9) looked a bit Hmm but still ate 2.

TotallyEggFlipped · 03/03/2013 06:32

I made the 2 ingredient banana cookies yesterday (with extra cinnamon). I made them very moist and didn't flatten them out like cookies, so they were a bit more rock cake shaped. I also cooked them at a slightly lower temperature for longer. They turned out like tasty moist cakey things. Very sweet and yummy, especially when still warm. They disappeared pretty quickly and I'll definitely be making them again. I think you really do need old bananas though to make them sweet.

Drladybird · 04/03/2013 09:17

You have probably used all your ripe bananas by now but I thought I'd share a couple of recipes that are sugar free, loved by my little one and include ripe bananas:
Banana Banana Biscuits
Date and Pecan Loaf

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