Sweet Potato Banana Bread

Ingredients

• Nonstick cooking spray
• 1 medium DOLE® Sweet Potato
• 1½ cups white whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 very ripe DOLE® Bananas, peeled
• 2 large eggs
• ½ cup unsweetened oat milk
• ⅓ cup maple syrup
• ¼ cup natural buttery spread with olive oil, melted and cooled slightly
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1.     Preheat oven to 350°F; spray a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.

2.     Poke potato on all sides with a fork; heat in a large microwave-safe bowl in microwave oven on high 7 to 10 minutes or until very tender. Cool potato 20 minutes and peel.

3.     Whisk flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Mash bananas and potato with the back of a fork in same large bowl; whisk in eggs, milk, syrup and buttery spread. Fold in flour mixture and ¾ cup walnut just until combined; pour into prepared pan and sprinkle with remaining ¼ cup walnuts. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few crumbs and top is golden brown.

4.     Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; run a small knife around edge of pan to loosen and remove bread from pan. Cool bread completely on wire rack.

5.     Cut bread lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 10 (1-inch-thick) slices. Makes 20 slices.