Chocolate Chip and Banana Loaf
Monday 14 September 2015
For today's post we're coming back with a chocolate chip and banana loaf. In our house we have always made banana and walnut loaf and the recipe originally belonged to my Nan, which then was passed on to my Momma who used to cook this with us when we were little.
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| So battered but much loved! |
I never enjoyed walnuts in anything so I never really used to eat the loaf or I would nibble round them, so this time round I decided to remove them all together and stick with a complete favourite of mine in a choc chip and banana loaf! The recipe is quite simple to make, and all you have to do to the banana is mash it, the riper the better! The recipe is in ounces but it is quite easy to convert if you want to use grams instead.
Hope you enjoy!
Ingredients:
-4oz soft dairy free margarine-
-40z soft brown sugar-
-1 large ripe mashed banana-
-2 eggs-
-1 tbsp golden syrup-
-8oz self raising flour-
-1 level tsp mixed spice-
-1 packet of dark chocolate chips-
Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease and line a normal sized loaf tin or 2 small ones.
2) In a large bowl cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
3) In a small bowl mash the banana, then add the 2 eggs and golden syrup, mix, then add to the butter and sugar and mix until combined and not separated.
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| (aware that at this point the mix looks like sick, do not panic hang in there!) |
4) Mix together in a small bowl the flour and mixed spice and sieve into the wet mix, folding the mixture until just combined.
5) Add in your chocolate chips and fold until evenly distributed.
6) Spoon your mixture into the tin, being careful not to fold your lining over which will make dents in the cake and pop in the oven for 40 minutes, then reduce the temp to 160 and cook for a further 20 minutes.
7) When the cake is cooked (when a knife runs clean of wet batter) leave in the tin for 10 minutes then empty out onto a wire cooling rack until cool.
8) When cool, you can leave the cake as it is and slice it or you can drizzle a thick water/icing sugar icing over the top for decoration.
We hope you enjoy this cake as much as we have enjoyed eating it!
Happy Baking!
xoxox
