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Wednesday 11 April 2012

Recipe for Walnut & Banana Loaf

Recipe for: BANANA & WALNUT LOAF

Ingredients:

  • 100g softened butter
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 225g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 4 very ripe bananas
  • 85g chopped walnuts
  • 50ml milk
Method: 

  1. heat oven to 180C/ fan 170C.  Grease 2lb loaf tin with butter & line with grease-proof paper or baking parchment & grease this also
  2. in a large bowl, mix together the butter, sugar and egg, then slowly mix in the flour & baking powder
  3. peel & mash the bananas, and add to the mixture with the nuts & milk
  4. pour the mixture into the prepared tin & bake for about an hour, or until the top is nicely browned & a skewer comes out cleanly
  5. cool on a wire rack then remove from tin
  6. if not using immediately, wrap in grease-proof & store in a bread-bin or cake-tin
What else you need to know: 

  1. you can serve this as a pudding, with chocolate sauce or the usual accompaniments, or as a tea-bread with a cuppa
  2. it doesn’t keep forever, so use within 1-2 days, or else freeze


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