Banana Bread

Ingredients

125g Tararua Butter, softened 1/2 cup Chelsea Caster Sugar (113g) 1/2 cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar (100g) 2 eggs 2 cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour (300g) 1 tsp Edmonds Baking Powder 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp Edmonds Baking Soda 1 cup Meadow Fresh Original Milk (250ml) 2 ripe bananas, mashed 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped (25g) (optional)

Preheat oven to 180°C bake. Grease and line a loaf pan (approximately 22-24cm x 13cm). Beat butter, Chelsea Caster Sugar and Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar together until pale and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift in flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Stir a couple of times to partially mix in. In a separate smaller bowl, dissolve baking soda in milk. Add to butter mixture with bananas and walnuts, if using. Mix until combined. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

Tips

After a fun flavour variation? Try swapping out the walnuts for one of these additions: • 1/2 cup chocolate chips • 1/3 cup chopped dried apricots • 3/4 cup fresh or frozen raspberries or blueberries • 1/4 cup shredded coconut • 1/2 cup dulce de leche or nutella, swirled through the batter