Friday, 22 July 2016

Banana bread with blueberries

In my fruit bowl lay two very, very overripe bananas, almost quivering with potential and 'readyness'. I'd had it in my mind that I wanted to make some banana bread, but, never having enough time, it kept being postponed. However, today I had some hours off in the afternoon, so I decided to go for it and get creative. I followed the BBC Good Food recipe but made some little tweaks, which I detail for you below (bolded for the differences)... Enjoy, it's a smasher.

Banana bread with blueberries
Ingredients:
140g butter
140g golden caster sugar
2 medium eggs (not beaten)
140g self-raising flour
2 very ripe bananas, mashed
3 handfuls of blueberries
(no baking power, no icing sugar, no banana chips)
bundt tin (I used my unpatterned one for this recipe - next time, when I'm feeling braver, I'll use my more intricate Scandi tin for a more elaborate cake design!).

Method:
Follow the method from the BBC website but just change the ingredients as above. I plopped the blueberries into the last mixing; they do this incredible thing where they burst and start to bleed into the cake; little pockets of juicy heaven. I found that there was no need for baking powder - the cake rises absolutely fine with just the S-R flour.