Where better to save my all time favourite Banana Loaf recipe than here :D
This recipe leaves you with a heavy, but soft and moist loaf and you can add all sorts of your favourite flavours and nuts/fruit to it too.
The best thing about a banana loaf is that our local supermarket often has bags of bananas for reduced prices once they start going brown – and those are THE BEST! For $1.70 you have plenty of bananas for this delicious loaf, just my kind of thing!
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of plain flour (260 gr)
- 1/2 cup of brown caster sugar (5 tablespoons is sweet enough for me)
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon (optional)
- 2.5 to 3 cups of mashed overripe bananas (600 to 700 ml)
- 3 tablespoons of lemon juice (optional)
- 1/2 cup of butter, softened (100 gr)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence (optional)
- 1 cup of crushed nuts (optional – walnut and almond are my favourites)
Pre-heat oven 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and lightly grease a medium Loaf tin.
Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.
Meanwhile soften butter in the microwave, add sugar and mix till it’s light and creamy, then add the eggs 1 at the time and add vanilla.
In a 3rd bowl mix mashed bananas and lemon juice, then stir it through the butter/sugar/egg mixture and add nuts while stirring.
Add the wet mixture to the flour mixture and stir just to moisten, then pour it in your loaf pan.
Bake for around an hour ~ 65 minutes. If a skewer inserted comes out clean, it’s done.
Let cool enough to take it from the tin and enjoy!
Today I tried spreading a hand full of nuts over the top… Can’t wait to try this!
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