Charity Chomp: A recipe you'll go bananas for

Friday 31 March 2023

Looking for a mid-morning snack to accompany your tea or coffee? This week's Charity Chomp is a loaf-ly recipe you'll go bananas for...

This week's recipe is courtesy of Beresford Street Kitchen, a charity which helps people with learning disabilities into paid employment in its café network.

Banana and walnut loaf

Ingredients:

• 250g plain flour

• 130g soft brown sugar

• 100g softened butter

• 2 eggs

• 3 ripe bananas, mashed

• 3tsp baking powder

• ½tsp salt

• ½tsp ground nutmeg

• 50g chopped walnuts (optional)

Method: 

1. Grease a 900g loaf tin and heat oven to 180c.

2. Place all the ingredients except the nuts in a big bowl and mix with an electric mixer.

3. Add the chopped walnuts and mix by hand.

4. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for one hour, do the skewer test to check its cooked.

5. Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes then turn out onto a cooling rack and leave till cold.

6. Slice and serve with a nice cup of tea

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