Banana bread is one of the best ways to use up those bananas which have started to look a little over-ripe. It is definitely one of our ultimate family favourites, and it is super easy to make!
Ingredients:
- 2 large eggs
- 3 large, ripe bananas
- 100g of dark chocolate chips
- 175g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 125g unsalted butter
- 150g sugar
Method:
- Mash the bananas with the back of a fork in a small bowl. This should be easy work if the bananas are very ripe!
- Use a wooden spoon to combine the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a bowl.
- Melt the butter in a small bowl – you can do this using either the cooker or the microwave!
- In another bowl, mix the melted butter with the sugar together.
- Once the butter and sugar have blended together, beat in the eggs one at a time.
- Add the mashed bananas to your sugar mixture and mix in well.
- Add the flower mixture to the batter a third at a time, make sure that it is all combined before adding any more.
- Add 85g of the chocolate chips to the batter and mix in well.
- Grease your loaf tin and then pour the mixture into it, before sprinting the remaining 15g of chocolate chips on top of the loaf.
- Place the loaf in the middle of the oven at 170 degrees celsius for between an hour and an hour and 15 minutes.
Tip: Let the loaf cool whilst it is still in the tin. That way is stops the bottom of the loaf from sticking to the inside of the tin!