Chef’s notes
I found the recipe on BBC recipes, should be the first one to pop up if you google easy banana bread recipe.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15-20min
- 🍳 Cook time: 40-50min
- 🍽️ Servings: 4-8 (depending on portion size). I also didn’t bake this in the usual bread tin, I used a semi deep oven dish as that’s all I had.
Ingredients
- 140g unsalted butter
- 140g caster sugar (I only put 90g as it was for the kids but you can tweak it to your liking)
- 2large eggs
- 1tsp baking soda
- 140g self raising flour
- 1tbs cinnamon powder
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 3 ripe bananas
Directions
- Beat the butter and sugar until a paste is formed
- Add in 2 beaten eggs and mix together
- Gently add the flour and baking soda bit by bit whilst mixing it all well
- Once combined, add in your cinnamon and vanilla
- Add in your washed blueberries
- Mash the bananas well and add to mixture.
- Fold the mixture until well mixed together and set aside
- Preheat oven to 180c
- Butter your dish and line with parchment paper ( I didn’t have this available so I covered it with butter and then added flour all around to prevent it from sticking. Works just the same)
- Once oven is heated up, carefully place the dish into the middle and bake for 40-50min. Make sure to check after 30min as every oven is different.
- Once cooked, remove from oven and let it cool for 10mins before removing from dish (this is to prevent it from falling apart)
- Last step. Cut a slice and enjoy on it’s own or how I did, with some yummy custard