Museli Fruit bread

I bought a box of Museli cereal from the store the other week, and I did not like it. Enough that I would not eat it. What to do? I would not have food go to waste, so the obvious solution was: bake it into something!

Conveniently, the side of the box contained a recipe for Museli Fruit&Nut bread. Not liking nuts in my bread, I followed the recipe and substituted the nuts with more Museli to get rid of as much as possible. I also did not have two ripe bananas for smushing, but I did have butter, so I veered away from the path of health to the path of extra tasty. Other adjustments to this recipe are a given. I gave a good two big squirts of vanilla (probably 2 tsps, conservatively) and added enough cinnamon to make the sifted mixture brown, the correct color of any baked good with cinnamon in it.

Half an hour in the oven, and voila! A beautifully browned aromatic loaf of transfigured reject cereal. Of course I burned my mouth tasting it right away. It was...not as flavorful as I would have liked. This is probably because I was in my post-dinner excitement for dessert and this bread was going to be dessert, no matter how much healthy stuff went into it! So, as any normal person with an overactive sweet tooth would do, I made some icing.

I should warn, I have a problem in that I love to substitute ingredients. If you could not tell from the above experience, I tend to freehand. In this case, I decided not to warm any more butter (and save it for some batches of cookies) and instead substituted extra milk. The result was a thin sweet liquid, which I poured on my bread. It soaked in sweetened milk until it transformed from somewhat healthy bread to dessert bread and I was a very happy camper.

Just out of the oven.

Museli Fruit&Nut Bread (from the box)

Ingredients

2 eggs

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 mashed ripe bananas

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup Museli

1/2 cup nuts

Mix first five ingredients in bowl, set aside. In second mixing bowl, sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Add Museli and nuts, mix well. Combine ingredients together. Mix well and pour into a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Bake at 325F for 45 minutes.

Icing

4 Tbsp. milk

1 c. granulated sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Heat on stove while stirring for about a minute. Then pour directly onto top of bread.