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Our Favourite Easy Banana Bread With Chocolate
How To Make Our Favourite Easy Banana Bread (With Chocolate Spread!)
Looking for a recipe for really easy banana bread? How about a really easy banana bread recipe with chocolate spread?
Like lots of people we’ve been making a lot of banana bread recently. However, like all parents of small children, we’ve had years’ worth of experience of baking child-friendly banana bread.
And out of all the banana cake recipes we’ve tried, we think ours – adapted from my mum’s old recipe – is the best!
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Why Making Banana Bread With Kids Is Brilliant
It’s a strange truth all parents of small children know, that they will either eat bananas immediately or not at all. As a result, you’re often left with a lot of bananas in the fruit bowl going quickly black.
Step forward banana bread, an easy recipe to make with children – everyone loves mashing the bananas – and one that everyone loves to eat.
And the secret to this one is an easy store cupboard ingredient that most people have – chocolate spread.
This easy banana cake recipe doesn’t need to be precise either, so it doesn’t matter if some flour goes on the floor.
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How To Make Easy Banana Bread
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Ingredients For Easy Banana Bread
- 115 g of soft butter (whatever’s in the fridge)
- 170 g of sugar (whatever’s in the house)
- 225 g of self-raising flour
- 2 eggs
- 2-4 ripe / black bananas
- Chocolate spread (whatever’s in the cupboard! We use a generic supermarket own brand).
- Drop of vanilla essence (not essential).
You’ll Also Need:
- An oven (pre-heat this to 180 degrees)
- Two medium-sized baking bowls.
- A loaf tin (although we’ve made this using a cupcake mould and also a cake tin).
Method For Making Easy Banana Bread With Chocolate
- Peel the bananas and mash together in a bowl. Don’t make them too smooth!
- Mix together the butter and sugar in a separate bowl.
- Add the eggs to the butter and sugar.
- Mix the bananas into the other bowl and mix by hand.
- Add the flour and mix. Add the vanilla essence here, if you have it.
- Add to the load tin (it’s easier if you pre-grease it).
- Take small spoonfuls of chocolate spread and swirl into the mixture to create a marbled effect. You can use a fork or a cocktail stick to create the swirls. It depends on how much chocolate you like as to how much you add!
- Bake for around 30 minutes, lower the temperature to 150 degrees and bake for 30 minutes again (this might be trial and error depending on your oven).
- Remove from tray and try to leave to cool before you slice it and eat it.
- We said try!
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Recipe Swaps For Banana Cake
- If you don’t have eggs, you can use an extra banana.
- And of course you don’t have to use chocolate spread – this is optional! We love it though…
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