Banana Coffee Cake with Blue Berry Glaze

Banana Coffee Cake with Blue Berry Glaze

This is a truly luscious way to combine the pleasure of coffee cake with the outrageous goodness of banana bread! Try it with blue berry first, buy you’ll discover that other flavors of spreadable fruit are also great.

(Serves 8)

1 ½ cups all purpose flour

1 taeaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ cup SPLENDA Granular

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

¼ cup chopped walnuts

2/3 cup (21 medium) mashed ripe banana

½ cup no fat – sore cream

1 egg, or equivalent in egg substitute

½ cup fat- free half & half

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

¼ cup blueberry spreadable fruit

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with butter – flavored cooking spray,. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, SPLENDA, and cinnamon . Stir in walnuts . In a medium bowl, combine bananas, sour cream, egg half * half , an vanilla extract. Add a banana mixture to flour mixture. Mix gently just to combine. Evenly spread batter into prepared baking dish. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Place baking dish on a wire rack. In a small microwave spreadable bowl, microwave spreadable fruit on HIGH (100% power) for 15 seconds or until melted. Drizzle melted blueberry spreadable fruit over top. Allow to cool completely. Cut into 8 servings.

Each serving equals

HE: 1 Bread * 1 Fruit * ¼ Protein * ¼ Fat *

¼ Slider * 11 Optional Calories

175 Calories * 3 gm Fat * 4 gm Protein *

33 gm Carbohydrate * 175 mg Sodium *

89 mg Calcium * 2 gm Fiber

DIABETIC EXCHANGES: 1 Starch * 1 Fruit * ½ Fat