Banana bread
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Banana bread
A moist banana loaf made with ripe fruit and a little cinnamon.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 55 min
- Serves
- 10
- Level
- Easy
Gather
Ingredients
- 300 gripe bananas, peeled weight, mashed
- 100 gunsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 130 gsoft light brown sugar
- 2medium eggs
- 200 gplain flour
- 2 tspbaking powder
- 1 tspground cinnamon
- 1 tspvanilla extract
Make
Method
- 1.
Heat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan and line a 900 g loaf tin with baking paper.
- 2.
Whisk the mashed bananas, melted butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla together.
3 minutes - 3.
Mix the flour, baking powder and cinnamon, then fold into the wet mixture just until no dry patches remain.
2 minutes - 4.
Scrape into the tin and bake for 50–55 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cover loosely with foil if browning too quickly.
55 minutes - 5.
Leave in the tin for 15 minutes, then lift onto a wire rack and cool before slicing.
15 minutes