Who needs dainty, cupcakey, frippery and frou-frou? This is a solid, gulag-style old-fashioned loaf that demands you cut off a great big hulking slab, slather it with butter and eat it accompanied by builders tea.
It's not all hulk and bulk though. The bananas make it lovely and moist, the dates are sticky and gooey, it's low in fat, big on taste and only takes 15 minutes to make.
Recipe:
- 300g self-raising flour - I used Doves Gluten-Free Self Raising Flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 125g chopped dates
- half a cup [125ml] caster sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp of ground nutmeg
- 2 large or 3 medium bananas - about a cup full of whipped banana but no matter if it's slightly more
- 1 cup [250ml] milk - I used semi-skimmed
- 2 large eggs
- 2lb capacity or 21.5x10.5cm loaf tin
Method:
- Sift the self-raising flour, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and nutmeg into a large mixing bowl.
- Stir through the dates and sugar
- Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients
- In another medium size mixing bowl chop up the banana into slices
- Whisk the banana slices with a hand beater or in a food processor until smooth-ish
- Add the eggs and milk and whisk briefly together until combined
- Pour half the banana mixture into the dry ingredients and combine at a low speed until blended
- Add remaining banana mixture and combine until just blended [don't over-mix]
- Pour mixture into a greased or lined loaf tin
The very yummy result:
2 comments:
Yum! Have forwarded this post to the chef of the household and am hoping to see it appear on my plate as if by magic...!
Yummm - this looks absolutely delicious and has got me drooling. I am already under strict instructions from my other half to make it. I think that will have to be on this weekend's agenda. Looking forward to it.
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