Easy peasy banana bread recipe
Happy autumn equinox! If you're like me, you're going to skip all this chatter at the start of the recipe and jump right to it...so I won't hold you any longer.
What you need:
8 x 4 inch bread pan
Mixing bowl (I love this collapsable washing up bowl from Ikea!)
Potato masher (trust me)
60 minutes of your precious time!
Ingredients:
4 bananas, either very ripe or microwaved for 2 minutes
210g all-purpose flour
150g sugar
75g butter, melted, or butter-like spread, as is
1 large egg
Half a teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 and a half teaspoons vanilla extract
Optional:
Ground cinnamon
Walnuts
Method
Preheat your oven to 175°C, gas mark whatever, and line the bread pan with some baking paper.
Mash the bananas in the mixing (or makeshift washing up) bowl, and mix in with the butter. We recently discovered that a metal potato masher does a far better job than a fork, which has been...revolutionary for us.
Add everything else into the bowl and mix.
Pour the mix into the bread pan.
Bake for 50 to 55 minutes, depending on your fancy. Poke the bread with a cocktail stick (or chopstick if you haven't got one), and if comes out dry then it's ready.