Anyone got a fave banana bread recipe to share?

[Scarlet]

Sorry I'm a bit late, but the following is really nice. You may need to cover the top of the loaf with tinfoil if it starts to get a bit too dark.

valmarg

I'm going to try this one tomorrow. I've got a ton of bananas getting very ripe in the fruit bowl, there has obviously been too much chocolate in our house over Christmas!

[HeyWayne]

We quite often make this one in our bread maker. Darned easy, cheap and tasty.

Kenwood - Banana & Cinnamon Tea Bread recipe Kenwood breadmaker

[valmarg]

I'm going to try this one tomorrow. I've got a ton of bananas getting very ripe in the fruit bowl, there has obviously been too much chocolate in our house over Christmas!

I'll be interested to hear how you got on.

valmarg

[Scarlet]

I'll be interested to hear how you got on.

valmarg

Really good, need to make two at a time...as it was bananas the kids assumed it was o.k to take to school for tuck

[valmarg]

Really good, need to make two at a time...as it was bananas the kids assumed it was o.k to take to school for tuck

I'm glad you liked it it was a recipe I was given by someone I worked with years ago.

Another recipe I was given was for Whisky Cake, delicious, but probably not recommended for the school tuckbox.

valmarg

[Scarlet]

Another recipe I was given was for Whisky Cake, delicious, but probably not recommended for the school tuckbox.

valmarg

Hi Valmarg,

Any chance you could post the recipe? my step dad loves a drop of whisky and a cake along with the special bottle for his birthday with go down a treat!

[valmarg]

No problem, it is a lovely moist fruit cake. You need to leave it in the tin to cool. It's not so much the whisky that goes in to the cake as that that goes into the buttercream. When you pour the mix into the tins it may be quite 'sloppy', but this is OK.

WHISKY CAKE

Cake

7 oz stoned raisins
4 oz whole walnuts

6 oz plain flour )
1 level teaspoon bicarb) ) Flour mixture
½ level teaspoon cinnamon ) sieved together
½ level teaspoon nutmeg )
½ level teaspoon allspice )
¾ level teaspoon salt )

4 oz margarine or butter
5 oz caster sugar
1 tablespoon whisky
1 egg

Filling and icing
2 oz butter
6 oz icing sugar
2 tablespoons whisky

Method

Simmer raisins in water for 20 minutes, drain, reserving one third pint of the liquid. Cool.

Cream margarine/butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy. Beat egg and add, fold in flour mixture. Add raisin liquid. Chop walnuts (leaving a few for decoration) and add with raisins and 1 tablespoon whisky. Pour into two prepared 7” tins and bake in centre of pre-heated oven (mark 4, 350oF, 180oC) for 40 minutes, or until firm to touch. Remove from oven and leave to stand in tins for a few minutes. Turn out and leave to cool on a wire rack.

Cream butter and icing sugar with 2 tablespoons whisky. Sandwich cakes together with some of the butter cream. Spread the rest on top and decorate with remaining walnut halves.

valmarg

[Scarlet]

Many thanks Valmarg - I will let you know how I get on!

[Two_Sheds]

bananas that are past their prime you can put them in the freezer.

Our market had bananas for 20p a pound yesterday

I've just made a banana bread with pumpkin instead, and very nice it is too (last year's pumpkins, diced & frozen)