Banana Zucchini Cranberry Almond Bread

Healthy, flavorful and goes together in less than 20 minutes, this zucchini bread will satisfy all of your cravings without all of the guilt.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup white sugar**
1 1/2 cup grated zucchini
2 cup bananas, mashed (3-5)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1 cus all-purpose flour
2 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp ginger
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup dried cranberries
2/3 cup slivered almonds
**I subbed 1/2 cup splenda for baking

Servings: 2 loaf pans

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8x4 inch bread loaf pans.

In a large bowl, beat eggs until light yellow and frothy. Add oil, apple sauce, brown sugar, white sugar, grated zucchini, bananas, and vanilla; blend together until well combined. Stir in the flour, pumpkin pie spice, ginger, baking powder and baking soda. Mix in the cranberries and nuts. Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared loaf pans.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Allow to cool in the loaf pans on a wire rack before removing and serving.

Recipe From: AllRecipes.com

I made quite a few modifications from the original recipe in order to make this more flavorful and make a few healthy improvements. I exchanged most of the all purpose flour for whole wheat, cut out most of the oil and replaced it with apple sauce, cut out a lot of the sugar (which you wont miss) finally I added extra zucchini and banana to keep it all moist and pack in some extra flavor.

I made a few tweaks with the spices but that will all be up to personal taste in this recipe and can be modified as you like. Don't have pumpkin pie spice? Add in nutmeg, cinnamon, all spice, cloves etc. Prefer walnuts to almonds, make the switch. Don't like craisins, use raisins. But I would recommend keeping some sort of sweet dried fruit in there or bump up the sugar a little bit (unless your going to slather this in cream cheese and then you wont notice).