With the family visiting for dinner on the weekend, I was planning to remake a chocolate and walnut brownie. I then realised I had 4 small bananas that needed to be used.
After having successfully made a coconut bread and a coconut and chocolate bread recently, I figured it was time to branch out and try a banana and walnut bread.
I adapted this from a recipe on About.com and thankfully, it turned out quite well. I sliced up the whole loaf, wrapped each piece individually and froze them so they are perfect to take to work and pop in the toaster for a mid morning snack!
Banana and walnut bread
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
4 small ripe bananas
1/2 cup soy milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Cream butter and sugar together.
- Stir through sifted flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- Mash the bananas then add all the ingredients together and mix well.
- Pour the mixture into a greased bread pan.
- Bake for 50mins.
- Toast a thick slice, butter and enjoy!
yum, looks good! i love using up ripe bananas for breads… love your idea of freezing individual slices – brilliant! now there’s a strategy to stop me from eating the whole thing at once because ‘it will go bad’, haha
Well it’s either that or share it with everyone at the office.. otherwise I’m in danger of eating it all myself! Oink!
It looks absolutely delicious! Love the cross section of the loaf! Mmmm and it looks so easy! Yay
Why thank you! You’re right, it’s super dooper easy
This sounds fantastic! I can almost smell the banana through my computer screen!
Freezing the slices is a great idea. Did you know you can freeze whole ripe bananas too? Handy if you only have one dieing in the fruit bowl.
Oh how clever! Thanks for tip, I’ll keep it in mind for next time
,,, and Ma enjoyed the taste too, well done daughter. BTW Sara is right, freezing narnies is great for a standby emergency banana bread fix. x
Such a great bread, might even add a handful of dark choc chips next time