This healthy loaf cake features blueberries and lemon, and is made with healthy ingredients like Greek yogurt and applesauce. Yum!
Ingredients
1½cups+ 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2teaspoonsbaking powder
¼teaspoonsalt
½cupplainnonfat Greek yogurt
½cupsugar
⅓cupunsweetened applesauce
1teaspoonvanilla
2eggs
1tablespoonlemon zest
¼cuplemon juice
1½cupsfresh blueberries
For the Optional Glaze*:
½cuppowdered sugar
2tablespoonsskim milk
½tsplemon zest
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350° F and spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together.
In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the yogurt, sugar, applesauce, vanilla, eggs, zest and lemon juice.
Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
In a small mixing bowl, toss the blueberries in the reserved 1 tablespoon of flour, then gently fold these into the batter.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, and bake for 35-45 minutes, depending on your oven. Check the loaf at 35 minutes to see if a cake tester comes out clean in the center of the loaf. If not, reset the timer in 5-minute intervals.
When it comes out of the oven, allow the loaf pan to rest for 10 minutes on a cooling rack before flipping it out of the pan.
While the loaf is cooling, make the (optional) glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar, milk, and lemon zest in a small mixing bowl.
Cool the loaf completely before drizzling the (optional) glaze over the loaf and slicing it into 8 pieces.
Notes
Tip: For more of a fresh lemon taste, bump up the lemon zest! You can also use fresh lemon juice instead of the bottled lemon juice.Tip: If you decide to make the optional glaze (which I wholeheartedly encourage), the calorie count is upped to 197 per slice and the WWP+ goes up to 6.WWP+: 5SmartPoints: 7*Optional ingredients not included in nutrition calculation.