Avocados and bananas. The two things in life that you spend weeks waiting to ripen, come home one day and they’re too ripe. What is that about? Vair annoying. We bought a bunch of bananas and then one day, we had four extremely ripe bananas just sitting around the kitchen. Normally when this happens, my go to is banana pancakes but I wanted to do something different so decided to make my first ever banana bread! It was going to be a banana and walnut cake, but I forgot to buy walnuts, so I added flax seed and mixed berries to the top instead. I also didn’t have cinnamon and vanilla that the recipe called for so decided to make it a chocolate and peanut butter flavoured banana bread. The recipe also said to use whole wheat flour but I didn’t. Basically I barely followed it, so if you want to try the original recipe it’s here.
2 cups self-raising flour
1 and a quarter teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons Peanut Hottie (powdered peanut butter) optional
2 teaspoon cocoa powder optional
3 insanely ripe bananas
1/4 cup honey
1/4 low fat Greek yoghurt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon flax seed optional
First off, I’m sorry it’s in cups. I know it’s annoying, but we have measuring cups so I couldn’t be bothered to convert it all. Buy some measuring cups, it makes life easier when you’re getting recipes off the internet!
Preheat the oven to 180c and grease a bread tin. Then whisk together the flour, baking soda, Peanut Hottie, cocoa powder and salt so there are no lumps. In a separate bowl, mash the bananas and then mix in the rest of the wet ingredients. You’re meant to get all the lumps of banana out, so best off using an electric whisker.
Mix all the ingredients together and pour in the bread tin. Sprinkle flax seed on top, and put in the oven for 30 – 40 minutes, until you put a knife in and it comes out clean! It looks more like cake mix than dough, but as I explained to Scott banana bread is really more of a cake than a bread. I think people call it bread so they don’t feel guilty about eating loads.
I know it looks burnt in these pictures, but it’s not. I think it’s the cocoa powder and the flax seeds, but rest assured it’s not burnt. It’s nicely crispy on the outside, and moist on the inside. A little dense but I think they’re meant to be aren’t they?
I was surprised how nice this turned out! It could have done with more cocoa powder and Peanut Hottie as it didn’t come out too flavoured, but overall it was so yummy. I had it with some peanut butter and honey and it tasted amazing.
What have you been baking recently? Let me know in the comments!
