Wealden Times | WT217 | March 2020 | Good Living supplement inside

Banana Loaf
Rope in some extra help – this recipe is great for the kids to get messy with
Serves 8 Prep Time: 60 mins
including cooking time
• 3 ripe bananas
• 130g butter
• 130g soft brown sugar
• 2 medium eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 70g chocolate chips
• 130g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
Preheat your oven to 180°C, fan
1160°C, gas 4. Oil and line a 2lb loaf
cake tin. Put the bananas still in their
skins in a pan with 1 tbsp of water and
cook in the oven until the skins go black.
Take out of the oven and remove the
bananas from their skins. Leave to cool.
2Beat your butter and brown sugar
together until light and fluffy.
If the kids are helping give them a
bowl and a wooden spoon, and let
them at it (it will take longer but
doesn’t have to be perfect). You can
soften the butter in the microwave
a bit first if using this approach.
3With a fork, mash the cooled
bananas with the eggs and vanilla
essence. Then with a wooden spoon,
slowly add your egg and banana mix
to the butter and sugar (add a spoonful
of flour if the mix is separating). Stir
in 50g of the chocolate chips.
4Fold in the rest of the flour and
baking powder. When thoroughly
mixed, spoon into the loaf tin – it’s
a thick mix. Bake in the oven for
45 mins until a skewer inserted
in the cake comes out clean.
5Sprinkle with the rest of
the chocolate chips while
warm so they melt on top.
Nicci Gurr is Head Chef at Home
Gurr’own, who cater for rustic
rural weddings and events in
Kent using locally-sourced and
hown grown produce. To find out
more visit homegurrown.co.uk
or call 07747 816541.