Either Banana Loaf (a variation on the others ...)
Banana loaf
Ingredients
? Vegetable oil for greasing the loaf tin
? 120g / 4oz sugar
? ½ level tsp salt
? 360g / 12oz self-raising flour
? 1 large egg
? 1tsp vanilla essence
? 125ml / 4fl oz milk
? 50g / 1 ½ oz melted butter
? 3 large ripe bananas, peeled.
Method
Preheat the oven to 180ËšC / gas mark 4. Grease a 1kg loaf tin with a little oil, making sure you get into all the corners.
Sieve the sugar, salt, and self-raising flour together into the mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg, then add the vanilla essence, the milk, the melted butter and 2 of the bananas. Mix together with an electric whisk ? it doesn?t matter if it is slightly lumpy.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and mix together with an electric whisk.
Chop the 3rd banana into small chunks, and fold into the mixture.
Put all of the mixture into the greased loaf tin, and put into the oven for 1 hour. Test with a skewer ? put it back for another ten mintues if the skewer does not come out cleanly.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool a little before turning onto a cooling rack.
Can either be served in slices, warm, spread with soft butter, or cold, as regular cake.
or Banana Muffins
Ingredients
10oz (280g) plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 large well-ripened bananas (about 1lb / 450g in total)
4oz granulated sugar
1 egg, beaten
2-3 fl oz (60 ? 90 ml) milk
3 fl oz (90ml) vegetable oil
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
Method
- Prepare muffin tins. Preheat oven to 375 - 400°F (190 - 200°C), Gas mark 5 ? 6.
- In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt)
- In another bowl, mash bananas thoroughly with a potato masher. Stir in egg, milk, oil, and vanilla essence.
- Pour all of wet ingredients into dry. Stir until batter is evenly mixed, but still lumpy. No dry flour should be visible.
- Spoon into muffin tins. Bake for 20 ? 25 minutes, until tops are lightly browned and spring back when pressed gently.
Both are very much enjoyed by DS!