Recipes

Banana Bread

75 minutes

Makes 1 loaf

Moist banana bread with a soft brown sugar and cinnamon swirl through the middle, finished with a demerara crust.

1 loaf

Ingredients

  • 3 Banana (mashed)
  • 1 cup White sugar
  • 1 Egg (large)
  • ½ cup Vegetable oil
  • Vanilla extract (to taste (measured with your heart))
  • 2 cup Plain flour
  • 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • Cinnamon (to taste (measured with your heart) — for the batter and the swirl)
  • Soft brown sugar (for the swirl layer)
  • Demerara sugar (for sprinkling on top)

Steps

Prep

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C. Grease and line a loaf tin.
  2. Mash the bananas (3) in a large bowl.
  3. Mix in the white sugar (1 cup), egg (1), vegetable oil (½ cup), and vanilla extract — mix mix mix.
  4. Add the flour (2 cup), bicarbonate of soda (1 tsp), salt (¼ tsp), and cinnamon, and stir until just combined.

Assemble

  1. Pour half the batter into the prepared loaf tin.
  2. Add a thick layer of soft brown sugar and cinnamon over the batter.
  3. Pour in the rest of the batter and sprinkle the top with demerara sugar.

Bake

  1. Bake for about an hour, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  2. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin before slicing.

Jessica Dermott's banana bread — quantities for the vanilla and cinnamon are, per the original recipe, "measured with your heart".

Serving suggestions

Best served slightly warm, on its own or with butter.