Apple Banana Bread With Almond Butter Drizzle Recipe 475

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 415 degrees. Yes, THAT hot. Also - add a few serving plates to your freezer. So they are fully chilled when serving. (You will see why and end.) 2. Grease your bread pan with coconut oil. 3. Chop your apple. 4. Add your whole rolled oats to Vitamix (or food processor). Process until mediun to fine in texture. You are essentially making oat flour. 5. Add oat flour and all other dry ingredients to large mixing bowl. Toss well. 6. Add all liquid blend ingredients to blender or fp. Process on low until smooth. Process for a good 2 minutes to fully blend apples and assist in plumping and "activating" the chia seeds for a thick texture liquid. 7. Fold liquid into the dry and then add fold in ingredients. Add the vinegar as the very last ingredient. 8. Pour batter into pan and top with oats and sprinkle of sugar. 9. Bake at 410 for 10 minutes. Then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 35 minutes. About 45-50 minutes total baking time. 10. Cool bread a bit before removing from pan. Make almond butter while cooling. 11. Quickly stir together almond butter + coconut oil + maple until smooth. Warm almond butter if needed to soften before mixing. Set aside at room temp until ready to drizzle over top bread. 12. Serving: Pull chilled plates from freezer. Add a warm, moist slice of banana bread to a chilled plate and drizzle the almond butter mix over top - let it hit the plate. You will notice that when the coconut oil-based almond drizzle hits the plate, it firms up a bit to a lovely frosting-ish texture. But the drizzle on the warm bread stays soft and warm. Serve and enjoy!