Banana Bread

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One of the easiest and yummiest snack- this is. Since it has a fruit-banana- it is comparatively healthy, I would even count it as eating my fruit of the day :D. I love banana bread, it is invariably the best use of those bottom of the bowl bananas which have been left too long and squished too much. I usually end up baking it on Saturday mornings and snack on it all weekend then! What fun!!

230 grams plain flour
150 grams granulated white sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 eggs, beaten lightly
110 grams unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 ripe bananas which comes out to be about 1 and a half cup
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 grams slightly toasted and chopped walnuts

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
Grease and line a loaf tin or a 9″ cake tin.

In a bowl, mash-up the bananas. Add the eggs, cooled butter and the vanilla extract.
In another bowl mix together all the dry ingredients flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and walnuts.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredient bowl and fold it in with a wooden spoon or a spatula. Do not over mix it, just enough so that the mixture is still chunky and streaky.
Scrape the batter into the prepared tin.
Bake for about 45 -50 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.

Cool on a wire rack-can be eaten warm or cold.

My house fills up with the amazing smell of the baking banana every I time make this!

Thanks for visiting! Do let me know how you get on with it.

11 thoughts on “Banana Bread”

  3. Hi Sonya

    Am a novice at baking.. so have a few questions:

    1) grease and line a tin – u mean grease with butter and line with paper? is lining necessary?
    2) is there a substitute for baking soda?
    3) hw do u ‘toast’ walnuts?

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    • Hi Swati, good questions:
      1)yes, grease with butter and line with parchment paper or butter paper as you might find there. You can absolutely do without lining. grease the tin with butter and then sprinkle with flour over the tin then just tap gently to get rid of excess flour..this will prevent your cake from sticking to the sides.
      2)Well, I had a quick look on the internet for substitute for baking soda (i.e soda bi carbonate- you should be able to find them in most grocery stores though)..could not find any easy-to-access substitute really. You can try adding a tablespoon of yogurt instead(which will also leaven the cake and keep it moist) or an additional egg.
      3) toasted walnuts- just roast them in the oven or just roast them on a pan. Basically to make them crisp so that they don’t go soggy in the bread while baking. Not really an essential step so you can skip it if you want.
      Hope this helps :))

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      • Hmm..I think so in this recipe, since I do melt the butter before adding. the only thing i can think of that it will do is make your bread a little heavier which is fine for me since I like dense banana bread.If you do try with oil, let me know how it comes out and may be I too will switch to the healthier option!:)

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