This is one of my all time favourite recipes and my go to any time we have overripe bananas in the house (oh dear did I forget to eat the bananas, oh well I guess I should make some banana bread..). It’s my wonderful Grandma‘s recipe and since she taught me to bake in ounces, the ingredients are listed in ounces.
If we’re entirely honest this is definitely more cake than bread, but it is baked in a loaf tin and the bananas make it at least a little bit healthy right?!? Its definitely not Slimming World friendly though, but it is oh so tasty.
Ingredients
- 9oz self raising flour
- 1/4 tsp (1/2 a level tsp) bicarbonate of soda
- Pinch of salt
- 3oz butter
- 6oz caster sugar
- 2 eggs (beaten)
- 1lb bananas (weighed in skin then pealed and mashed) The riper the better really!
Method
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Slowly add the eggs, adding a little of the flour if necessary
- Stir in the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda (it will seem a little dry for a cake mixture at this point)
- Add the mashed bananas and mix well
- Spoon into a lined loaf tin
- Cook at 180c (gas mark 4) for 1 hour and 15 minutes (when its ready a skewer inserted into the middle should come out clean
If you like nuts you can throw in some chopped walnuts but make sure to reduce the flour to 8oz
The recipe is really simple and definitely worth making. It tastes delicious warm and the slight crispy end pieces are my favourite!
Happy Baking!
Thanks for popping by,
Kimberley x
This looks soo delicious!
love, elena
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This looks so delicious! Loving your photo as well its beaut!
I always plan to make banana bread but my kids eat all the bananas before I get a chance!
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Oh I love Bannana bread. It’s my favourite thing. #kcacols
Oh delicious! I’m ALWAYS throwing out bananas so I need to get a good banana bread recipe. I’ll be trying this one! #KCACOLS
You cannot beat a recipe like this – love banana bread and will give this one a go #KCACOLS
I LOVE banana bread/cake. Will have to try out this recipe 🙂 my grandma always added some chocolate chips, so might have to throw some in! #KCACOLS
I love banana bread not had it for years though and I can’t bake so I’ve never made it myself! Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next Sunday
That sounds good! What is caster sugar and why would you use that as opposed to regular old white sugar? Thanks for sharing on #KCACOLS
Oh wow this is super simple but sounds and looks delicious. Will definitely try this one out 🙂 #KCACOLS
This looks lovely. I use my moms recipe, I don’t know where she got it from but nothing ever seems to chalk up to it. I always add chocolate chips though #KCACOLS