by Fakorede Wuraola

Banana Bread recipe is one of my new discovered recipe, the recipe worth trying out. Most especially this quarantine period, this tasty and moist banana bread/ cake recipe is doable and home kitchen friendly. It can be use as a snack with family as you all gather to have good moment.

This is the best bread/cake I’ve ever made; I would prefer to call this a cake than a bread. It really delicious light cake with great banana flavour. I prefer to use a very ripe bananas to add natural sugar.

To eat clean and have low fat, you can substitute the following ingredients with healthy ingredients:

Whole wheat or gluten-free flour

Freshly grated Carrot

Neatly diced apple

Nut such Raison, pecans

Shredded unsweetened coconut.

Ingredients

• 4 Ripe or Overripe Banana
• 2 Cups All-Purpose flour (Wholemeal flour as a variation).
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 4 large eggs
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp grounded nutmeg
• Pinch of Salt
• ½ tsp of Vanilla extract – Optional

Servings: 5 | Prep Time: 10mins  | Cooking  Time: 45 – 55mins

Method

• Heat the oven to 350-degree Fahrenheit or 180 degree Celsius
• Preparing the Wet Ingredients
• Mash the ripe banana in a bowl with a fork or potato masher.
• Break and beat the egg, add to the mashed banana and add milk. In order to put the wet ingredients in the same bowl.
• Put the butter to melt in the microwave.
• Mixed the butter with the brown sugar.
• Get another bowl, to mix the dry ingredients
• Sift the flour into the bowl, add and mix baking powder and baking soda
• Add nutmeg and cinnamon, mix everything together.
• Add the wet ingredients: the banana mixture to the dry and mix till everything combined together to make banana bread mixture.
• Add the butter/sugar mixture and mix together.
• Add a pinch of salt to taste

• Grease the baking pan with butter and coat with flour to avoid the mixture sticking to the pan.
• Turn the mixture into the bread pan and place in an already preheated oven for 45minutes.
• Deep toothpick or table knife in the middle of the bread to check.

Note: if the toothpick or table-knife is stuck with crumbs from the bread, the bread/cake is ready.

• Take the bread/cake out of the oven and allow to cool off for 5-10 mins
• Slice with a bread knife and enjoy your banana bread/cake.