Spiced banana bread
By Claire
About This Recipe
Take your banana bread up a notch with this rich, treacly and lightly spiced banana bread.
Instructions
Ingredients
- 250g/9oz self-raising flour
- 70g/2½oz dark soft brown sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 40g/1½oz raisins
- 40g/1½oz shelled unsalted pistachios
- 250g/9oz mashed banana (about 2 very ripe medium bananas)
- 40ml/1½fl oz sesame oil or vegetable oil (see tip)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 free-range eggs, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp crushed cardamom seeds
- 1 tsp mixed spice
Method
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Preheat the oven to 180C/170C Fan/Gas 4 and line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with baking paper.
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In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, raisins and pistachios together. In a separate bowl, mix together the bananas, sesame oil, olive oil, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom and mixed spice. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
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Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 35–40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out a little moist, but clean.
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Cool, slice and nominate 5 people to make banana bread!
Nutritional Information
self-raising flour
brown sugar
salt
baking powder
raisins
pistachios
banana
bananas
sesame oil
olive oil
eggs
vanilla bean paste
cinnamon
cardamom
mixed spice
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Spiced banana bread