HOMEMADE BANANA BREAD

Yesterday I noticed that I had a few bananas that were a little too brown and mushy for my liking. As a student, you can't really afford to waste food and I hate wasting food anyway so I needed to think of a way to use up these bananas instead of throwing them in the bin. Banana bread was my instant thought as I love banana bread and hadn't had it in a long time so this was the perfect way of using up my bananas. I always have basic baking ingredients in my cupboard just in case I fancy baking something. The recipe is very simple and quick to make and I thought I would share this light, yummy treat with you for you to use if you have a few bananas going to waste.

Ingredients 

2 cups of plain flour

3/4 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of caster sugar

1/4 cup of soft butter

2 eggs

3 overripe bananas

1/3 cup of low fat Greek yoghurt (or natural yoghurt)

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 teaspoon of butter

Recipe

Preheat the oven to 180O

Firstly combine the plain flour, baking powder and salt.

In another bowl, combine the soft butter and caster sugar.

Then to the butter and sugar mix, add the eggs, one at a time, beating the mixture after each addition. 

Then mash up the bananas and add to this mixture. (I mash up the bananas with a fork to ensure they are mashed thoroughly). 

Add the Greek yoghurt (or natural yoghurt) and the vanilla essence to this mixture and combine.

Once blended, add the flour, baking powder and salt mixture to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients and combine,

Melt a teaspoon of butter then add to a loaf tin and allow the butter to cover the bottom and sides of the loaf tin.

Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin and put in the oven for an hour. Check it is cooked by inserting a knife then pulling it out to make sure no mixture is left on the knife. However, the mixture may be banana so insert the knife into a few different places, you don't want an overdone banana bread! It should be a moist and squishy texture.

Allow to cool completely before removing it from the loaf tin.

I like to cut it into bite-size pieces and keep it in the fridge as I think it tastes amazing cold.

I find that this goes perfectly with a strong mug of English tea, enjoy! 

Do you like baking? Do you like banana bread? Will you be using this recipe?