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Banana Bread
Banana bread is a delicious afternoon treat and is a great way to use up overripe bananas. This recipe is so easy most of the ingredients are probably already in your pantry.
Ingredients
- 300 g self-raising flour, sifted
- 160 g brown sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 125 ml buttermilk
- 150 g unsalted butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large bananas, mashed
- ⅓ cup dates, chopped
- ½ cup walnuts, chopped
- unsalted butter, extra for greasing pan
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180ºC. Grease a loaf pan (10 x 20cm) and line with baking paper.
- Using a metal spoon, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon and mixed spice in a mixing bowl. In a seperate bowl, lightly whisk the eggs and vanilla extract. Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the egg mixture along with the buttermilk, butter and bananas. Stir until combined and then add the dates and walnuts. Gently stir until completely combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 65-75 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted comes out clean. Set aside to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
- Serve slices warmed with butter.
Notes
- No buttermilk? Simply take regular milk and add a teaspoon of lemon juice. Let it sit for 5 minutes until it starts to thicken and add to the recipe in place of the buttermilk.