Red Velvet Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Icing

[4 SP per serving] This delicious loaf is not too much different form regular cake or loaves, with exception to using buttermilk, cocoa powder and of coarse red food coloring. The cream cheese icing finishes it off for the perfect sweet treat, you can leave the icing off to save a point but I mean, c’mon.. it’s cream cheese icing!! Makes 10 servings.

Information

Makes: 10 servings
Source: Drizzle Me Skinny
Prep: 10 min     Cook: 50 min
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

1 large	egg
2 ea	egg white, about 1/4 cup
2 Tbsp	vinegar
½ cup	low-fat buttermilk
2 medium	bananas, mashed
1 ¾ cup	white whole wheat flour
1 tsp	baking soda
2 Tbsp	unsweetened cocoa powder
Icing
¼ cup	low fat cream cheese, softened
¼ cup	confectioners' sugar
½ Tbsp	light butter
½ tsp	vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F, spray a regular sized loaf pan with non stick spray.
2. In a bowl whisk your egg, egg whites and sugar together. Add in your buttermilk, mashed banana and vanilla. Mix well.
3. Stir in your flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda. Then mix in your food coloring.
4. Pour batter into loaf pan and bake in oven for approx 45-50 minutes.
5. While loaf is baking mix up your icing, cream together your cream cheese, icing sugar, butter and vanilla. Chill icing in fridge. Each serving (with icing) is 5 smart points or 3 points plus, if you choose not to make the icing it will be 1 point less.
6. Let loaf cool for at least an hour before icing, then cut into 10 pieces after you have iced the loaf, best stored in the fridge.

Notes

Nutritional info per serving (not incl banana) Calories 127...Fat 2.4g..Sat fat 1.3g...Carbs 21.2g....Fiber 0.7g...Sugar 6g... Protein 4.1g.
4 SP per serving.