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Old Fashioned Banana Bread

Old Fashioned Banana Bread Loaf

This old-fashioned banana bread loaf recipe is the perfect way to transform ripe bananas into a moist and flavourful treat everyone will love.
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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 125 g / 4.4 oz / ½ cup Soft Salted Butter
  • 250 ml / 1 cup / 7.9 oz Sugar
  • 5 ml / 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 2 Eggs
  • 4 Very Ripe Bananas
  • 500 ml / 2 cups / 8.8 oz Cake Flour
  • 5 ml / 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 5 ml / 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
  • 125 ml / ½ cup Boiling Water

Instructions
 

  • Preheat Oven: Set your oven to 180°C (350°F). Generously grease a loaf tin with non-stick spray.
  • Cream Butter and Sugar: In a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
    Cream butter and sugar for Old Fashioned Banana Bread
  • Add Bananas: Add the mashed bananas.
    Mashed Banana for Old fashioned Banana Bread
  • Incorporate Wet and Dry Ingredients: Add vanilla essence and eggs. Sift in the cake flour and baking powder and mix until well combined.
    Add wet and dry ingedients to Old Fashioned Banana Bread
  • Dissolve and Mix: Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the boiling water. Pour it into the batter and mix thoroughly.
    Mix ingredients for Old fashioned Banana bread.
  • Bake: Pour the batter into the prepared tin. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean.
    Pour batter into a prepared tin. - Old Fashioned Banana Bread
  • Cool: Allow the banana bread to cool on a wire rack.
Keyword banana loaf cake, banana muffins, Old-fashioned banana bread