Edmonds Banana Loaf Recipes

EDMONDS BANANA LOAF

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking soda and salt into a bowl.
• Mix in sugar.
• In another bowl beat eggs.
• Stir in milk, butter and banana.
• Mix quickly into dry inredients, stirring until ingredients are just combined.
• Spoon into a greased and lined 22cm loaf tin.
• Bake at 180C (350F) for 45-55 minutes.
• Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

BRILLIANT BANANA LOAF

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
• Butter a 2lb loaf tin and line the base and sides with baking parchment.
• Cream 140g softened butter and 140g caster sugar until light and fluffy, then slowly add 2 beaten large eggs with a little of the 140g flour.
• Fold in the remaining flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 2 mashed bananas.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for about 50 mins, or until cooked through. Check the loaf at 5-min intervals by testing it with a skewer (it should be able to be inserted and removed cleanly), as the time may vary depending on the shape of your loaf tin.
• Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then remove to a wire rack.
• Mix 50g icing sugar with 2-3 tsp water to make a runny icing.
• Drizzle the icing across the top of the cake and decorate with a handful of banana chips.

VERY BEST BANANA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Spray two 9 X 5 inch loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray.
• Using your food processor, puree the bananas, then remove the puree to another bowl and set aside.
• No need to clean the work bowl of your food processor, just add together and blend well the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla.
• Takes about 1 minute.
• Measure and mix together, in a separate bowl, all the dry ingredients except the nuts.
• Return banana puree to processor work bowl.
• Add dry ingredients and blend, pouring in the coca cola as mixture is blending together.
• Blend until smooth, about 1 minute.
• Blend in nuts by hand.
• Divide mixture between the two loaf pans.
• Place loaf pans on a baking sheet in the oven.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes OR until loaves test done in the middle with a toothpick.
• Let cool about 10-15 minutes then turn loaves out of pans to finish cooling.
• These loaves keep well or can be frozen.

BANANA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, stir in the mashed bananas.
• In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt. Blend the banana mixture into the flour mixture; stirring just to combine. Fold in the nuts.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.