Banana Walnut Bread

Inspired and adapted from the recipe by passionatebaker.com 

So it’s ‘Let’s try to be healthy and not bake week’. We'll have a healthy detox Fruit and Vegetable week we said...  

Epic fail. 

Trying to stay away from baking is virtually impossible for me and since I’m trying to be good as summer is coming I decided to use up my very ripe bananas to make some good old Banana Bread. 

This is really nice in big thick slices just out of the oven. 

This recipe makes one loaf which will yield up to 12 slices! 

Hope you enjoy as much as I did! 

Makes 1 loaf (21cm long)

Ingredients

• 4 ripe bananas

• 1 tablespoon milk

• 2 medium eggs

• 160ml maple syrup

• 40ml olive oil

• 200g plain flour

• 2 teaspoon baking powder

• 60g walnuts, roughly broken

Method

 1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Lightly oil a 21cm loaf tin & line the bottom with some baking parchment.

 2. In a medium bowl, mash the bananas, add in the tablespoon of milk and combine the two together.

 3. In a stand alone mixer, whisk together the eggs, maple syrup and olive oil until thoroughly combined. Next add in the banana mixture and whisk again to incorporate.

 4. Sieve the flour and baking powder into the wet mixture and fold carefully to combine. Finally add the walnuts & fold again until just combined.

5. Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin. Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes or until the loaf is golden & risen on top & a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

 6. Remove from the oven & leave to cool in the tin for five minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.