Do you have bananas lying around that are now a bit too ripe? There’s no point throwing them away! You could always use them to make a delicious treat instead: banana bread. Banana bread is a soft, moist cake-like bread made with actual bananas. The riper your bananas are, the more flavour your bread will have. You will need to either mash them up with a fork to make a purée or cut them into pieces, but this all depends on what you want the taste and texture of your bread to be like.
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Banana bread can be enjoyed plain, but you could also add chocolate chips or some chocolate icing to make it even tastier. It is also possible to add in some nuts such as walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts to give it a bit more crunch. Finally, if you want to make your bread just that bit more special, you could throw in some cinnamon, vanilla or even Tonka bean extract.
Banana bread ingredients
- 3 bananas
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1/3 cup almond purée or peanut butter
- 2 tbsp of honey
- 1 sachet of yeast
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup walnuts/almonds/hazelnuts
How to make the banana bread
- Mash up the bananas and then add the eggs, honey and almond purée or peanut butter.
- Add the flour and yeast and mix until everything is well-combined.
- Crush up the nuts and add them to the mix along with the chocolate chips.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 356°F in your cake tin. That’s all it takes!
