Pecan & Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Total time
Author: CluckMuckCook
Recipe type: Cake
Serves: 1
- 285g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 110g butter, plus extra for greasing
- 225g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 4 very ripe and mashed bananas
- 85ml buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 50g chopped pecan nuts
- 50g choc Chips
- Preheat the oven to 180c/160c Fan.
- Mash up the bananas to a paste consistency.
- Combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda, pecans, choc chips and salt into a large mixing bowl.
- In a stand mixer or another bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and pale.
- Add the eggs, bananas, buttermilk and vanilla extract to the butter and sugar mixture and mix until well combined.
- Fold in the flour mixture gently until just combined.
- Grease a 2lb loaf tin and pour the cake mixture into it.
- Bake for about an hour until golden-brown and if you insert a skewer it comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for a few minutes.
- Turn out onto a wire rack and allow to cool. Serve warm or cold with a drizzle of caramel sauce or spread with Nutella .
Recipe by Cluck, Muck & Cook at http://cluckmuckcook.co.uk/pecan-banana-bread/
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