Looking for v easy banana cake/bread/muffin recipe

[Cratchit]

Have a couple of bananas that would be perect for this, but need really quick and easy recipe, ideally using whizzer of some sort! Please help cake addict in need here.

Muffins

7 oz self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs, beaten
5 tablespoons sunflower oil
5 tablespoons milk
2 ripe bananas
4oz milk chocolate chips

Line a 12 hole muffin tray with paper cake cases. Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Beat the eggs with the milk and oil in a separate bowl.

Mash the bananas onto a plate with a fork then add to the flour. Add the egg mixture and fork the ingredients together briefly until only just mixed. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake at 200C for 15 minutes or until the muffins are well-risen and the tops spring back when lightly pressed with the fingertips.

Cook on a wire rack. Will keep for 2 days in an airtight container.

Thanks WWB. Will give them a go today if DS poorliness improves!

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Nigella's banana bread is lovely though.

What a reliefI agree cod, like paper, or polistyrene (sp?!)... yick. Only nigella thing i made, put me right off and haven't touched her since. She's Domestic Yuck in our house.

Is it really Sd? Given my previous experience with Nigella? If yes have you got the recipe? And are you ready for the wrath of Cratchit if it goes pearshaped?

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Well I like Nigella'a banana bread - in fact there's one in the oven as we speak! so ner de ner!

Nigella's banana bread

100g sultanas
75ml bourbon/rum (I've used apple juice sccessfully though!!)
175g plan flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
half teaspoon bicarb
half teaspoon salt
125 g butter (melted)
150g sugar
2 large eggs
4 ripe bananas, mashed
60g walnuts (I've never put these in)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
loaf tin, buttered and floured or lined with greaseproof paper

put sultanas & rum in saucepan, bring to the boil and leaave for an hour or until the liquid's mostly been absorbed. This plumps up the sultanas. Drain.

Preheat oven to GM 3 170 C

Put flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt in a bowl and mix.
In a nother bowl, mix butter & sugra and beat until blended (or use a mixer!!) Beat in eggs one at a time and then the bananas. Stir in walnuts, sultanas and vanilla. Add the flour mix 1/3 at a time, stirring well each time. Scrap into loaf tin (I've had to pour it on occasions!) and bake in the middle of the oven for 1 - 1.2 hours. Leave in the tin to cool.

Here you go - (courtesy of Soupy! )

I made Nigella's one last week - deeee lish.

Nigella's recipes always daunt me with their huge lists of ingredients, even if the actual cooking is easy.
My easiest banana recipe runs thus (and can be done in food processor):

Rub 50g marg into 200g SR .
Add 1 beaten egg,
50g sugar,
grated rind of 1 lemon,
3 mashed bananas.
If mixture is crumbly add a few drops of milk to soften it, but don't make it too wet.
Greased 1lb loaf tin
Reg4, 350F, 180C 45mins

This is all looking really good. Mrs B magic words there ... food processor. Can the rubbing be in the FP? Can i use butter instead of Marg?

Shall we start a why do YOU hate Nigella thread?

I've done Nigella's in the FP - just chuck in the ingredients one at a time, leave the fp going all the time and it's fine, I've also used it with the knife attachment as it's the only suitable one my fp's got!

Of course you can use butter instead of marg (I nicked the recipe from one of my mum's frugal 1950s books).

Rub the fat in with the FP the same way you'd make pastry - though to be honest it's such little bit in so much flour it doesn't take long by hand and the other ingedients just stir in.
(I'm too lazy to drag our FP our from its lair and wash all the bits afterwrads)

Thanks LucyK - didn't mean to be cheeky about Nigella. Looks delic and will trust you on the FP! Thank you .

ok, my banana bread recipe is as follows:

Beat 100g butter and 150g light brown sugar together in the FP. Add in 2 eggs and whisk again. Add 3 ripe bananas, one at a time, and whisk again. Mix together 225g plain flour, 1 tsp salt, 3 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp cinnamon (optional) and add gradually to the FP. When it is all mixed up I stir in (by hand) a couple of handfuls of raisins/sultanas. You could leave these out if you prefer. Walnuts are optional also (my kids wouldn't eat it with them in.) Bake at 180 for about an hour.

BTW, anyone know how you stop chocolate chips melting while muffins, etc are baking?

I find chocolate chips melt in the oven then set again once cake is cooled. If they melt & disappear in the batter, perhaps mix is too runny?
NB if you want them to decorate top of biscuits etc, try sticking them on after baking while biscuits are still warm.

Well I made Mrs B's cake ...and cocked it up! How you ask? IU've no bloody idea. I'm eatin git of course, but it's heavy as hell, and very stodgy. I even left it in the oven for a bit longer because I could see a problem was looming. Aaaggghhh. I'll try it again another day but will try one of the others next time I think.

Why can't I bake?

sorry I failed you cratchit!
try Nigella's or KatyP's

Ahh No Mrs B, for tis I who failed you ... hope v much my post didn't make you feel it was your fault. It's me being an idiot. I've just got this thing about baking you see...love it can't cook it, yet! But I will not be beaten. Did have two problems I know of with yours:

1. Accidentally put one loaf tin inside the other so it cooked in both,. Not v clever I suspect.
2. made it by hand, not FP - the stupid, over-ambitious puritan in me came out, why given I can't bake at thee best of times I don't know. Didn't know what consistency to make the mixture when I was rubbing in, or at the end. So by the last stage I gave it a really really firm mix, kind of beating it a bit as if it was eggs or similar. Then read a baking website when Mumsnet was down(how sad is that?!) and saw something about not overbeating cake mixtures, so might have been that. Whaddya reckon?

katyp - have tried your recipe - mmm lovely will deffo be making it lots, thankyou

Right KatyP you're next on the list! Many thanks.