Embrace the taste of this delicious banana bread recipe

Happy summer everyone! Now it’s lovely and hot, you may find some of your food is beginning to spoil faster. Do you have some overripe, browning bananas? Wait! Don’t throw them away! Why would you do that when you can make the most delicious banana bread for you and your friends/flatmates instead?

Fun fact: banana bread isn’t actually bread; it’s a moist, rich, delicious cake. It got the ‘bread’ part of its name from being cooked in a loaf tin!

Here’s how to make it:

Ingredients

• 2 large OR 3 small overripe bananas (if you have more bananas, you can add one more to either of these numbers!)
• 100g unsalted butter
• 175g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 225g self-raising flour
• OPTIONAL: 100g chocolate chips (dark, milk or white, it’s up to you, but I prefer dark!)

Optional topping: Lotus Biscoff spread

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 6.
2. Line a loaf tin with baking paper or grease it with butter.
3. Peel and mash the bananas.
4. Beat in the butter and sugar until combined.
5. Beat in the eggs until combined.
6. Sift the flour into the mixture and mix until combined.
7. Optional: stir in your chocolate chips, leaving some aside for the top!
8. Spoon the banana mix into the loaf tin and sprinkle the leftover chocolate chips on top.
9. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes/1 hour and a half until just firm to the touch.
10. Leave to cool for 10-15 minutes in the tin before turning out.
11. Cut your loaf into slices and enjoy!

TOP TIP: If you like Lotus Biscoff spread, it’s delicious spread onto a slice of banana bread!

I really hope you will try this recipe, whether it’s to reduce food waste by using food rather than throwing it away, or just because you want to try it anyway!

Feel free to comment on my Instagram reel (the one showing how to make this recipe) with any toppings you put onto a slice so others can try different delicious combinations!

Happy baking!