Banana Bread
Banana Bread
If like me when bananas get too ripe you don’t like eating them, here’s a recipe to save waste and it’s easy to make.
Ingredients:
- 2 large ripe bananas mashed
- 100g softened butter
- 75g light Muscovado sugar
- 100 ml maple syrup
- 1 egg beaten
- 150 ml Greek yogurt
- 250g self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- icing sugar to dust
Method:
Grease large bread tin (making sure it fits oven)
Beat butter, sugar, syrup together with electric whisk until pale and creamy.
Stir in egg, yogurt and banana until evenly combined.
Sift flour and baking powder into bowl mix in through. Turn into tin.
Place on low rack, cover with tin foil.
Set temperature @ 175º C and cook for 35 mins. lift foil cook further 15 mins till brown firm to touch and skewer comes out clean. Leave to stand for 10 mins turn out and cool.
Hope you enjoy this!!!!
For Pecan cake: make cake mixture, stir in 2 oz pecan nuts and 1 tsp mixed spice with yogurt and banana.
While cooking beat 100g softened butter in bowl with 75 ml maple syrup, 50 g icing sugar until combined. Chill till cake cooled then spread over top scatter extra nuts.
Posted by Hummingbird on 28/11/2010
