Nothing tastes better then banana bread hidden by chocolate!! My brother always calls this bread brownies. Replacing some of the fat with applesauce really helps the texture and keeps the bread super moist.

Chocolate Multi Grain Banana Bread

Ingredients cup all purpose white flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 2 tbsp rolled oats 2 tbsp wheat bran 1 tbsp yellow cornmeal 1 tbsp flaxseed 1/2 cup applesauce, unsweetened 2 large eggs 1 cup mashed bananas (1-2 whole bananas) 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4-1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 1/4-1/2 tsp ground cloves 1/4-1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4-1/3 cup cocoa powder (dutch processed works best) 1/4 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup white sugar 1/4 cup skim milk 1 tsp baking powder

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. In a food processor, pulse flaxseed until it becomes meal.
3. Add first five dry ingredients to processor and mix well. Place flour mixture in a medium size bowl.
4. Place applesauce, eggs, bananas, vanilla extract, and milk in processor and blend.
5. Add remaining dry ingredients to the flour mixture, stir to blend.
6. Add egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until well blended.
7. Grease a loaf pan (9 x 5 inch)
8. Spoon in banana bread mixture
9. Bake at 350F for approximately 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
10. Remove from oven and cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
11. Remove from pan and cool on wire rack.
Makes approximately 8.5 1-inch slices.