Banana bread/cake recipes??

[hamsterqueen]

Not that I am cliaing they are my home grown fruit

but I am on an economy drive and have 4 huge spotty bananas to use up.

Any good recipes??

[Hazel at the Hill]

Try this:

banana chocolate chip cake

[milly2306]

this is a good one:


Banana Cake recipe
ingredients
A delicious recipe for a banana cake.2 or 3 very ripe bananas
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 stick (8 Tbsp)4 oz (100 g) butter or margarine
1/2 cup (100 g) 4 oz caster sugar (superfine granulated)
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups (225 g) 8 oz self-raising flour
lemon icing (optional)


method
1. Mash the bananas with the lemon juice.

2. Cream together the fat and sugar, then beat in the eggs followed by the bananas.

3. Sift the flour and mix into the banana mixture.

4. Turn into a greased 15 x 20 cm (6 x 8 inch) cake tin and bake in a moderately hot oven 200°C (400°F) Gas Mark 6 for 40 to 45 minutes.

5. Cool on a wire rack.

[Hilary B]

Lazy version. Start from a Victoria Sponge recipe. Replace half the butter and sugar with bananas (2 biggish bananas will replace 2 oz of each) mashed and mixed into the creamed butter/sugar mix just before adding eggs. Add a little extra baking powder (about half a teaspoonful in a 2 egg mix) with the flour. I like to bake it in a loaf tin, at gas 4. I don't know timings, I just cook it until it passes the 'spring' test (when depressed gently by a finger, it should spring back to shape) or test with a skewer/knifeblade (should come out clean).
It keeps well (if it gets the chance), and tastes deliciously moist. I sometimes add chopped dried apricots.

[Finedon.Dandy]

Sticky Banana Bread

This is how I make mine...
Ingredients
For ten slices:
• 250g (8oz) White Self Raising flour ( organic )
• 1/4 of a ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 125g (4 oz) hard margarine (butter)
• 125g (4 oz) caster sugar
• grated lemon rind (optional)
• 2 eggs
• 3 medium bananas, mashed with a fork.
• 6 tablespoons honey ( very heaped teaspoons )
Method
Heat oven to 180 degrees c, Gas Mark 4.
Sift the flour cinnamon and nutmeg into a bowl, and rub in the margarine.
Fold in the sugar, eggs, lemon rind, mashed bananas and honey.
If you don't want it to be sticky, add flour to get the dough to a dropping consistency (so it falls off the spoon in lumps). A sloppy sauce will make a lovely gooy cake
Put into greased tin and level the top
Bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours or until a knife pushed in to the cake comes out clean.
Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack until cold.
Eat in slices, spread with butter. The bread tastes better after 48 hours.

[hamsterqueen]

Thank you , I think I will have to buy more bananas!

I found this one, wholemeal flour and bananas, practically health food!!

BakingMad - Chocolate & Banana Bread Recipe

And GORGEOUS.

I will try the others next

[Alison]

BANANA FRUIT TEABREAD
Makes 1 x 2lb. (1kg) loaf
INGREDIENTS:
2 ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
3 oz. (85g) walnut pieces, roughly chopped
2 oz. (60g) butter or margarine
one and a half teaspoons baking powder
grated rind of 1 orange
half a teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
quarter pint (140 ml) orange juice
1 egg, size 3, beaten
4 oz. (110g) demerara sugar
half a teaspoon margarine
8 oz. (225g) white or wholemeal plain flour
METHOD:
1. Grease and line the base of a 2 lb. (0.9kg) loaf-tin.
2. Pre-heat the oven to 350F, Gas Mark 4, 180C.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl.
4. Rub in the butter and stir in the sugar and orange rind.
5. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
6. Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin and level the surface.
7. Bake in the pre-heated oven for one to one and a quarter hours or until well risen and firm to the touch.
8. Turn out onto a wire rack and allow to cool.
9. Wrap and store for at least a day before cutting.

[Alison]

BANANA LOAF
MAKES 2 SMALL OR 1 LARGE LOAF
INGREDIENTS:
100g softened unsalted butter
140g light muscovado sugar
2 large eggs
450g ripe mashed bananas
50g roughly chopped pecans
50g raisins
150ml buttermilk
280g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
METHOD:
1. Whisk together the butter and sugar.
2. Beat in the eggs a little at a time. Stir in the mashed bananas, pecans, raisins and buttermilk.
3. Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda on top of the banana mixture, then fold in until evenly mixed, taking car not to overmix.
4. Spoon into the prepared tin and level the top.
5. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes (Gas Mark 4) until a skewer pushed in the centre comes out almost, but not quite dry.
6. Remove from oven and leave for about 10 minutes, then turn out of the tin onto a cooling rack.

[hamsterqueen]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo,

look forward to massive banana shortage in south east