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Banana breakfast loaf

Prep Time:

20 mins

Cook Time:

40 mins

Serves:

8 Servings

Level:

Beginner

About the Recipe

This nutritious banana bread recipe requires just a few basic ingredients to create the most delicious banana bread. It features wholemeal flour and is sweetened naturally with either honey or maple syrup. You can easily adapt this recipe to be vegan or gluten-free.

Ingredients

  • 75g butter, softened (sub for olive/coconut oil)

  • 100g honey/maple syrup

  • 125g plain flour (sub for GF flour)

  • 100g wholemeal flour (sub for GF flour)

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • 2 eggs (sub for flax + water)

  • 4 ripe bananas, mashed

  • 50g pecans, each snapped in half

Preparation


  1. Heat the oven to 180c/fan 160c.

  2. Beat the butter, sugar, flours, baking powder, eggs and banana together.

  3. Stir in the nuts and spoon into a lined and buttered 450g loaf tin.

  4. Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.


Notes:

  • To make this recipe vegan: replace butter with olive/coconut oil and replace the eggs with 1 tbsp ground flax + 2 tbsp water

  • To make this recipe gluten free : replace the flours with gluten free alternatives of your choice

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