- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Serving: 4 - 8
Nutrition facts (per portion)
- Calories: 399
- Fat Content: 20g
- Saturated Fat Content: 8g
- Carbohydrate Content: 53g
- Sugar Content: 30g
- Fiber Content: 2g
- Protein Content: 6g
- Sodium Content: 0.54g
Banana & walnut loaf
Ingredients
- butter - 100g softened butter, plus a little extra for greasing
- caster-sugar - 140g caster sugar
- egg - 1 beaten egg
- plain-flour - 225g plain flour
- baking-powder - 2 tsp baking powder
- banana - 4 very ripe bananas
- walnut - 85g chopped walnuts
- milk - 50ml milk
Instructions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 2lb loaf tin with some butter and line the base with baking parchment, then grease this as well.
- In a large bowl, mix together the butter, sugar and egg, then slowly mix in flour and baking powder. Peel, then mash the bananas. Now mix everything together, including the nuts.
- Pour your mixture into the tin and bake for 1 hr, or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool on a wire rack before removing from the loaf tin. The loaf can now be wrapped tightly in cling film and kept for up to 2 days, or frozen for up to 1 month. Defrost and warm through before serving. Serve in thick slices topped with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with a little Easy chocolate sauce (see recipe, below).
Fruity cake recipe for 4 – 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, caster sugar, egg, plain flour, baking powder, banana, walnut and milk.
