Going bananas

On a busy weekend at my boyfriends house there can be three adults and six children running around. 

In a bid to calm then down (after deciding bribing hem to be quiet with sweets was not the best thing to do when I was doing it up to ten times a day), I bough some fruit for us all.

The weekend went by and the fruit stood in the bowl where I had put it on Friday. 

I looked at the bananas and decided to get into baking mode and make banana bread the next weekend. 

It was a success and it didn't even have time to cool down before it was demolished, I have also concluded that the two mashed bananas that I used must equate to 1 of our 5 a day in each slice. Let me believe it, please!

To use the brown bananas in your fruit bowl and get something healthy down their necks, the recipe is below. 

Ingredients:

140g butters softened, plus extra for the tin
140g caster sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
140g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
Baking powder
2 very ripe bananas mashed
50g icing sugar
handful dried banana chips, for decoration

(Photo is not mine as it was demolished before I had a chance to take a picture. This picture is from http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2249656/brilliant-banana-loaf as is the recipe, obviously mine looked exactly the same.)


1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter a 2lb loaf tin and line the base and sides with baking parchment.

2.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then slowly add the eggs with a little flour. Fold in the remaining flour, baking powder and bananas. Pour into the tin and bake for about 30 mins until a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then remove to a wire rack.

3.
Mix the icing sugar with 2-3 tsp water to make a runny icing. Drizzle the icing across the top of the cake and decorate with banana chips.