Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 130 grams Butter room temperature
- 1/2 cup Caster sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown sugar
- 2 large Eggs Beaten
- 8 Pisang Emas 7 peeled & mashed, 1 sliced thinly to lay across the top
- 1 tsp Calamansi / Lemon Juice Optional, to keep bananas from oxidising
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1/2 generous cup Greek Yoghurt / Coconut Cream Either, or mixed in desired proportion
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Cake Flour Sifted
- 1 tsp Cinnamon Powder
- 1/8 tsp Nutmeg Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Fine Salt
Instructions
- Line a 8 or 9 inch loaf pan with baking paper and pre-heat over to 160 degrees celcius. I also like to measure out all my ingredients and keep them ready in their specified portions.
- Sift cake flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl and use a fork or whisk to mix well.
- Peel the bananas and mash 7 in a bowl. Add calamansi juice to keep them from turning brown quickly. Slice the last banana thinly lengthwise, drizzle with remaining calamansi juice and then coat in a thin layer of flour which should help to keep it from sinking later.
- Put the room temperature butter, caster sugar and brown sugar in the bowl of your electric mixer and beat on medium for a few minutes, until smooth and creamy. Add beaten eggs and continue with electric mixer until just incorporated.
- Fold in the mashed bananas, then beat in vanilla essence and greek yoghurt / coconut cream until just combined.
- Sieve in half the dry ingredients and fold in by hand. Once incorporated, repeat with the remaining dry ingredients.
- Pour the banana bread batter into the prepared loaf tin. Lay sliced bananas across the top as you like. You can also sprinkle a little brown sugar / cinnamon over them, it will caramelise well.
- Place in the oven on a middle rack for 55 minutes - 1 hour. The timing can vary, so check to see if a toothpick comes out clean sooner rather than later. It will keep cooking with the residual heat after it comes out.
- Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin, before transferring to a wire rack.
- Cut everyone thick slices and enjoy!
Notes
You can play with this recipe and add chocolate chips, or toasted walnuts as you please!