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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
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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. 1.

    Heat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan and line a 900 g loaf tin with baking paper.

  2. 2.

    Whisk the mashed bananas, melted butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla together.

    3 minutes
  3. 3.

    Mix the flour, baking powder and cinnamon, then fold into the wet mixture just until no dry patches remain.

    2 minutes
  4. 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. 5.

    Leave in the tin for 15 minutes, then lift onto a wire rack and cool before slicing.

    15 minutes