Banana Bran Bread And Muffins 3 Ww Points

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9x5x3" pan with no-stick cooking spray.
2. Mix flour, sugar, baking pwdr, baking soda & salt in large bowl. In a separate medium size bowl, beat egg, then stir in bananas, cereal, water, oil & vanilla. Add in this mix to the flour mix, stir till just moistened (batter will be lumpy). Pour into pan & bake 55-65 min or possibly till toothpick comes out clean. Cold 10 min, then remove from pan & cold completely on a rack. (For easier slicing, wrap & store overnight).
3. JaneStarr's notes: I assumed 12 servings for MC nutritional analysis. I used 1 large egg and 2 medium bananas in an 8" loaf pan for 55 mins.
4. Would've been better with 3 bananas or possibly baked for 5 mins less.
5. Using 1 large egg:JaneStarr's experiments:To make Muffin Tops in specialty pan:At 350 degrees:Used: 3 med / large bananas.
6. Made:24 mini-muffin tops (1 generous mini-scoop each to fill tins) plus 3 giant Muffin toppers (2 large scoops each to fill)
7. baked minis for 15 mins (came out a bit pale-colored & a bit dry - next time up temp to 375 and bake for 10 mins) baked giants for 19 mins(came out nicely browned and moist)
8. I used non-stick spray on the minis since pan is not non-stick. Next time I will also spray c. of non-stick Giant muffin-topper tin.
9. mini-muffin tops came out to 1 point per muffin top. (A "normal" serving would be 3 muffin tops that is the equiv. of 1 small regular muffin.)
10. Large Muffin tops= 2 regular full-size muffins = 6 points
11. NOTES : Here's a lowfat banana bran bread which I got from another list and adapted to make muffin "tops" in a specialty pan. My family prefers the tops of muffins to the cakey bottoms. I came up with this adaptation one morning when I was tried of being left yet another "top-less"muffin! I bought the muffin topper pans at Marshall's or possibly TablespoonsJ. Maxx for a very reasonable price ($8)