Banana Bread

Everyone needs a good banana bread recipe. It’s so simple to make but delectable nonetheless. It’s for times when you’ve neglected your bananas for a bit and they’ve gone completely black and you think shit. Now you can look at those black beauties and think yesssssssss banana bread.

Ingredients

4 ripe bananas, mashed

250g caster sugar

125g butter

2 eggs

250g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

100g walnuts, roughly chopped

Preheat the oven to 190⁰C. Line a loaf tin with baking paper.

In a large mixing bowl first mash your bananas.

Cream the bananas with the sugar using an electric whisk.

Beat in the butter.

Add the eggs, one at a time with a little bit of flour, mixing as you go.

Pour in the remaining flour and baking powder, folding everything together with a spatula.

Stir in the walnut pieces.

Pour the mixture into the tin and bake until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. This depends a lot on how big your bananas are. Mine were pretty monstrous so it took almost an hour and a half to cook properly. 45 mins to an hour is a good estimate but everyone’s ovens, and bananas, are different so keep an eye on it. When it’s baked, remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.

A slice of this is amazing with a spread of nutella.