2013 Cooking Club Week 10: Banana Bread

I decided to share my banana bread recipe with you. This is a really quick easy one to do and uses up the leftover brown bananas at the end of the week. I have used frozen bananas in this and it still works well.

I make this in 2 tins to make it stretch further, but one can be used. I have also made it in bun cases and all sort of kids cookware shaped tins. It can be frozen and it also very tasty toasted.

While it is called bread, I would normally eat it without butter but I do use butter rather than marg when making it.

For the observent reader, the recipe calls for cinnamon but I was out of it on the day and used mixed spice. When kids were smaller I would make this without walnuts, doesn't taste as nice but still more than enjoyable.

dry ingredients:

10 ozs/280g self raising flour
5 ozs/140g of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
4 ozs/110 g walnuts, chopped
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

wet ingredients:

3 beaten eggs
3 bananas, mashed
7 ozs/200g melted margarine

method

mix dry ingredients in one bowl
mix wet ingredients in another bowl
mix wet mixture and dry mixture together
put into well greased loaf tin
bake in a pre-heated oven for 1hr 30 mins

oven temperature:gas mark 4, 350of, 180oc

As stated above I normally make this in 2 tins so cooking time reduces to about 50 minutes, check after 45 but as always depending on oven etc could take upto an hour.

Enjoy

PS it's a very easy one to make with the kids as can be seen from the photos, in my house they love to help