Hi, everyone. Welcome back to eat live Escape. Today we are making a deliciously moist banana bread
It is really simple to make, it will take about 50 minutes in the oven
but preparing it is really quick and easy. Um It's one of those things that everyone loves
It is great for either breakfast with some nice warm butter and berries
You could have it just as a snack or it's also really good in lunch boxes for work or school
Ok. So the ingredients that you'll need, you'll need two really ripe bananas
Um You can see this one we've got is really ripe and this one's sort of sort of ripening
But you'd want to make sure for the extra sweetness that they're quite ripe, you need about a third of a cup of butter which
we've just melted about three quarters of a cup of sugar. You can use brown sugar or if you're not um eating sugar at the
moment, you could replace that with um a honey or a syrup of some description
Um We're just using good old fashioned sugar. You need 1.5 cups of flour
We've got one cup of plain all purpose flour and a half a cup of self racing flour and one teaspoon of baking soda
You just need one egg, some ground cinnamon, some vanilla essence or even some
salt and that's all you need. So the very first thing that you need to do is you need to peel your bananas and you
can see that they're lovely and ripe on the inside and just pop them into a bowl
Um can see how ripe this one is. It just will make your banana bread really lovely and sweet
Um We know some people who only use a very, very small amount of sugar or honey to sweeten their banana bread
particularly if they've got extra ripe bananas. If you do plan to do that, we would suggest having three really ripe bananas
And what you need to do is just mash them with a fork just until all of the pieces of banana are mashed in together
OK? So you can see all of the bananas are lovely and mashed
So just put them to the side. You just need to grab a decent sized bowl and a wooden spoon just pop in your dry
ingredients. So in with the flour and the baking powder, in with the sugar
OK? Just about we give just like a few really good shakes of cinnamon
So probably about if you wanted to measure it out, it would be just about a teaspoon. It depends how much you like cinnamon
of course. And just a oh, a teaspoon of salt. So again
we just don't like to get too fussy with the measurements, particularly with this um banana bread
It's actually works really well. Even if you know, it's not exactly precise
Just about half a teaspoon there of salt. Just make a little well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pop
in your melted butter. Add in one egg, you can pre beat the egg beforehand if you prefer
But otherwise it's just as easy just to pop it in and give it a really good mix too
Take your wooden spoon and give that a good mix. Ok? So once you've just added
in the butter and egg, then add in your mashed banana and
this is where you'll need just a little bit of elbow grease just to mix everything through
Ok. So you just need a standard loaf um tin for this banana bread
a piece of baking pepper. Just so just add your banana bread mix
in and you need to put it into
an oven that's preheated to about 180 degrees Celsius or 3 50 F
Um If you're working from Fahrenheit, once it's in the tin, just give it a little bit of a move up to the
edges and then you are ready to put that in the oven
So you just bake it for about 50 minutes. Um Depending on your oven again
if it's fan forces or not, we would advise checking it at about 40 minutes, just putting a skewer through the middle to see if
it comes out dry, then you're all good. And it's done. If it's still a little bit wet, just keep it in there for the
full 50 minutes. The banana bread has come out of the oven. It is cooked perfectly
It smells amazing. All you need to do is just slice it up
You can see we've done that there. We've just let it cool for about 10 to 15 minutes
It's really delicious, warm though. So it's nice for you to eat and sort of when it's not made out of the oven for too
long, you can just eat it on its own. You could add butter, you could add berries and double cream
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