My solution to 'over ripe' bananas

Banana Bread Recipe

  As I'm sure you can gather from the title, I didn't eat the banana's my mum bought me (whoops) and when I last looked at them they were brown and nasty. But this was just the precursor to my latest baking venture. You guessed it banana bread!
This recipe is not only yummy, super easy to make, adaptable, but is lower in fat than most other banana bread recipes.

Ingredients:
150g Caster Sugar
50g Softened Butter
2 Eggs
3 Mashed Bananas
200g Plain Flour
1 Teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
1/4 of a Teaspoon Baking Powder  A handful of sultanas 

  1) Preheat the oven to 180 Degrees Celsius and line a loaf tin with grease-proof paper
2) Beat the sugar and butter together, this will not cream like a conventional cake but do not worry there is a lot of 'wet' ingredients to come
3) Add the eggs, mashed banana to the sugar-butter mixture and mix thoroughly
4) Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder, if the mixture looks too dry add water, at this stage I added a handful of sultanas, you can add/not add anything you want: dried fruit, nuts, chocolate drops ect
5) Add to the loaf tin and bake in the preheated over for 45 minutes
6) When 45 minutes has passed take the loaf out of the oven and spike a skewer into the middle, if any mixture has stuck, put back in and repeat until the skewer is clean
7) Cool in tin then take out, peel grease-proof paper off of the bottom and enjoy!


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