Banana and walnut bread

Don't know about you but I always seem to end up with the odd black banana that is less than appetising... Instead of making muffins this time, I decided to make a deliciously light banana bread instead. One of my boys doesn't like bananas in their raw state, this is one way I find he is more than happy to devour them. Here's the recipe;

Ingredients

150g caster sugar

360g plain flour

15g baking powder

2.5g bicarbonate of soda

5g salt

360g ripe bananas

3 medium eggs

120ml vegetable or sunflower oil

90g roughly chopped walnuts (optional - you could use chocolate chips)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 165 degrees C
• Butter and flour a bread loaf pan
• Sift together the sugar, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt
• In a mixing bowl, mash the bananas, mix in the eggs and oil until well combined
• Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the banana mixture, combine together then add the walnuts. 
• Stir until the mix is just combined

• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan
• Bake in the centre of the oven for about 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before turning out of the tin and cooling completely on a wire rack.

 Happy baking xx