Sweetness Is.....: Banana Bread

Dont you just hate it when you buy a bunch of bananas and then within the first couple of days they turn brown?
Never fear! Banana bread recipe is here!
I love banana bread, although I'm more fond of adding extra ingredients to it to make it super exciting!
This particular recipe is great for a basic banana bread if you omit the raspberries and choc bits. Try mixing it up by adding things like dates, nuts, cinnamon, sultanas, stewed apple, strawberries..... the list is pretty much endless.

BANANA BREAD basic recipe (made 2 loaves)

Ingredients:

150g Butter

1 Cup Brown sugar

2 Eggs

3 Bananas

2 cups Self Raising Flour

1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 Cup Milk

**** If making raspberry & white chocolate variation like mine you will also need

1pk White Choc Bits

1 cup Fresh raspberries or Thawed Frozen raspberries

I thought about buying some pretty yellow bananas, but these are the

ones that got used, so they ended up in the pic. Plain flour & Margarine was for the loaf tin

Step 1:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius

Butter and flour the loaf tin

Mash the bananas up in a bowl and set aside. They will turn brown, that's cool, if you really dont like it add a few drops of lemon juice when mashing the banana, it helps.

Buttered & Floured tin

Bananas before

Bananas after

Step 2:
Place chopped up butter into a bowl, beat until it starts to lighten and get fluffy.
Add the brown sugar in 3 lots, beating well after each addition

Butter, starting to lighten and fluffy up

Adding some sugar

Well mixed sugar and butter

Step 3:

Lightly whisk 1 egg and add to the butter/sugar mix. Beat well.

Do the same for the second egg.

Whisked egg

Adding egg to butter/sugar

When you start to beat it it separates, but keep going...

It ends up looking like this

Step 4:

Add the banana and stir through

Step 5:
Sift the flour and baking powder together. Dont laugh, but I'm a little OCD and have to sift my flour at least 3 times over baking paper before adding it to the mix. I dont know if sifting so many times helps with the texture of the bread, but it makes me feel better, so I go with it.
Then add it to the other ingredients along with the milk, and then stir to combine.

Sifting flour & baking powder

Added flour to the other ingredients

Milk added

Combined

Step 6:

If you are not adding anything, pour half the mix into a loaf pan and the other half into another (or leave the rest until you've cooked the first loaf)

If, like me, you're adding things do this now.

Stir through 3/4 pk of choc bits

Then gently stir in the raspberries

Pour mix into pans as above

Sprinkle choc bits on top too if you want

Place in the oven for 35 minutes or until a skewer comes out pretty much clean. The house will start to smell amazing when it is close to being ready.

Leave in the pan to cool for 15 then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely