Banana Earl Grey Tea Bread

Total time: 1h

Ingredients:

• 1/2 ripe banana (we’ll use total of 3 bananas for this recipe)
• 1 earl grey tea bag
• 2 tbsp chia seeds

Dry ingredients:

• 2 cups AP flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• A pinch of salt

Wet ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature, coconut oil as an alternative)
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs (1/2 cup of apple sauce as an alternative)
• 2 1/2 ripe banana (mashed)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 350 F and coat the loaf pan with nonstick oil spray. Set aside.
• Combine the dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
• In a large bowl, combine butter and brown sugar. Mix till creamy.
• Add eggs, mashed bananas, and vanilla extract into the large bowl (the rest of the wet ingredients). Mix until completely incorporated.
• Combine chia seeds and tea leaves (open the tea bag and mix in the leaves) into wet ingredients mixture.
• Gradually add dry ingredient mixture into wet ingredients and mix into there are no flour sockets.
• Spoon the batter into the loaf pan and top with banana slices (1/2 banana). Bake for about 50 minutes.
• Once baked, make sure to stick a toothpick in the middle and see if it comes out clean.

There you go!