In my opinion, throwing away over-ripe bananas is blasphemous to the baking gods. Clearly the only way to remedy that is by making an offering as delicious as this...
Yummy, light banana bread that's even good for you! The natural sugars in the bananas mean that less refined sugar needs to be added to this recipe, and I've substituted some of the plain flour for wholemeal, making it more nutritious and lower GI.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup or 85g or 3oz wholemeal flour
scant 1 cup or 115g or 4oz white flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
¾ tsp cinnamon
½ cup or 75g or 3oz brown sugar
3 medium overripe bananas, mashed
2 medium eggs
3/8 cup or 75g or 3oz margarine
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 190ºC/375ºF/Gas Mark 5. Prepare a loaf tin by lining it with baking parchment and spraying with non-stick cooking spray.
In a bowl, combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
In another bowl, beat together the sugar, margarine and vanilla extract.
Mash in your bananas.
Beat the two eggs separately and add them to the banana mixture, mixing well.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix together quickly, being sure not to over-mix the batter (which would result in a 'tougher' bread - we want light and fluffy!)
Pour the batter into your prepared loaf tin.
Pop in the oven and bake for 50-55 minutes or until the banana bread is golden and springy to the touch, or a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Or alternatively, bake until the glorious smells wafting through the house just get too much for you to handle and you eat half the loaf straight out of the oven. Not that that's ever happened to me.
The best thing about this bread is, as delicious as it is straight out of the oven, it seems to taste even better the next day! Maybe it's something to do with the natural sugars in the bananas?
What are your favourite baking recipes that use bananas?
Your photos are so beautiful as is this bread. I love banana bread, but my hubby LOVES banana cream pie...you've reminded me I should treat him to one soon :)
ReplyDeletemmm,i love banana bread! or banana muffins. so tasty.
ReplyDeletethis looks incredible! you take great photos. youll have to give me some tips!
ReplyDelete@Lizzy Mmm... banana cream pie sounds delicious!
ReplyDelete@Sam {fitnessfoodandfaith.blogspot.com} Me too! Plus with banana muffins I'm less likely to eat most of the entire batch in one go... :)
ReplyDelete@Mallory @ It's Only Life Thank you! My camera is pretty much broken, whenever I turn it on I have to flick the shutter at the front because it doesn't open properly. Never mind!
ReplyDeleteMmm, I love banana bread! Who doesn't, right? Yours looks fantastic. I am also a fan of adding some whole-grain flour to recipes--it makes me feel better about snacking on baked goods :-)
ReplyDeleteI've made a bread pudding that calls for bananas, and it's delicious. It's also a good way to use up stale bread. I almost never make it through a loaf of bakery bread without some of it going stale!
Quite honestly I don't think anything beats banana bread. I love bananas foster too, but there is no baking involved in that :)
ReplyDeleteMy god that looks good! Banana bread is my favorite. I've made banana bread before and it's never quite right. I'll give your recipe a go. Btw you pictures look amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. soo many great recipes on here! I will hopefully be trying the apple quinoa cake tonight.
@Gina; The Candid RD I've never heard of bananas foster but I just googled it and it looks delicious! Have to try some sometime :)
ReplyDelete@Charlie Glad you liked the look of it, hope it turns out well for you!
ReplyDeleteI never through away bananas, but I usually turn them into cupcakes. This banana bread looks delicious. I like the cinnamon addition in the ingredients. I usually add cinnamon when I have apples and walnuts. I am sure this variation of banana bread will be equally delicious!
ReplyDeleteYum. Banana bread is one of my ultimate favorites. I can't believe it's been so long since I have had some!
ReplyDeleteI buy bananas for the sole reason of ripening them and turning them into banana bread. It's one of my faves. I add cinnamon (and other spices) to my banana bread too!
ReplyDeleteMmm nothing like good banana bread, this looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI'm a biiiiiiiig banana softserve fan. I even make Neopolibanana - banana softserve that is layered: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry!
ReplyDeletehttp://shabbottshabits.com/2011/neopolibanana/