Every day we get some fruit at the office. When they aren’t eaten, they get thrown away while still good. I decided to fix that and took some bananas home.

Codziennie dostajemy w biurze owoce. Jeśli nie zostaną zjedzone, są wyrzucane, często wciąż dobre. Postanowiłem to naprawić i zabrałem do domu banany.

Banana bread is a tasty cake. The technical difficulty is that bananas are moist and so is the dough, and if you don’t do it the right way, you’ll end up with some slack dough (still, very tasty).

I followed the recipe from BBC Good Food.

Banana bread

Planning

Butter a loaf tin, mine’s 24 cm x 10 cm x 7.5 cm. Maybe learn how to fold ingredients into the dough:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXe-kTlTv8I  ]

Be aware it is baked for over an hour.

Ingredients

• 100 g softened unsalted butter
• 140 g light muscovado sugar (I only had demerara, I don’t know the difference)
• 2 large eggs
• 450 g mashed ripe bananas (after peeling, of course)
• 50 g roughly chopped pecan nuts. You can replace them with walnuts which taste quite similarly
• 50 g raisins (I had a mix with cranberries and something else, worked well)
• 150 ml buttermilk. You can get a good one at a Polish store near you. Don’t worry if it comes a big packaging – you can use the remaining bit as a base for smoothies, or to make even more banana bread
• 280 g plain white wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 50 g icing (if you want, I think it’s sweet enough without it)

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 160 C fan / 180 C conventional / gas 4. Always know your oven

2. Whisk sugar and butter into a cream

3. Add eggs, continue mixing

4. Add bananas, raisins, nuts, buttermilk

5. Sift flour and soda on top of the mixture, then fold it in until mixed evenly. Don’t overmix

6. Pour the mixture into the tin and level the top

7. Bake for 75 minutes. It will turn dark on the surface, but will be fine. By the end I used a skewer to check that it is not too moist inside

8. Let it cool down in a tin for about 10 minutes, then take it out on a cooling rack
   

   Sliced banana bread

I took the repaired bananas back to work. No more waste 🙂