Banana, walnut & chocolate chip loaf

Paul Hollywood shares his banana bread recipe - this delicious bake is dotted with chocolate and nuts

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Recipe by Paul Hollywood

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Difficulty and servings

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 15 mins

Cook 1 hr 5 mins

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. In a large bowl, mash together the bananas and the sugar with the back of a fork. Add the eggs and mix well with an electric hand whisk until fully incorporated, then add the butter and mix for a couple mins more to blend everything together. Sieve in the flour and baking powder and fold together with a spatula, then add the walnuts and chocolate chips. Give everything one final mix before tipping into the lined loaf tin.
Bake for 1 hr 5 mins or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool slightly in the tin, then turn out and serve cut into thick slices, either warm or at room temperature. Any uneaten cake will keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

PER SERVING

578 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 72g, fat 28 g, saturated fat 13g, fibre 2g, sugar 50g, salt 0,6 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2012.

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Karen's

2012-01-28 14:18:52.990722

Karen's commented on this recipe

lovely flavours but I found gas mark 5 way too high - the loaf is all burnt around the top!! Fortunately the children are too fusy!

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Karen's

2012-01-28 14:19:13.173518

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bev7088

2012-01-28 15:04:50.201856

bev7088 rated and commented on this recipe

Really easy to make. Lovely and moist with a very subtle banana flavour. Nice crunch from the walnuts. Definetly one to make again!

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Hannah Zac

2012-01-28 17:40:11.809601

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janet

2012-01-29 00:11:51.516151

janet rated and commented on this recipe

As I had some very very ripe bananas thought I'd give this a go. What an easy recipe and a wonderful result. it was beautifully moist.

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Miss Webby

2012-01-29 17:34:23.564782

Miss Webby rated and commented on this recipe

Really moist loaf. I love banana bread and the walnuts add a great texture. I did cook on a lower temperature to avoid burning the top. I didn't have an electric whisk and struggled incorporating the butter, so think I would cream it with the sugar if I were to repeat. Also this recipe make a lot of cake mix, I filled 2 tins, think it may be because I had big bananas ;-) Overall a big thumbs up!

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teejie

2012-01-29 20:01:25.619349

teejie rated and commented on this recipe

Wonderful recipe. Very moist, a little crunchy on the top (crunchy not dry), the walnuts give a lovely bite and flavour and who can go wrong with chocolate chips? Very easy to make. Did look a bit alarming when beating the softened butter into the very wet banana, sugar and egg mixture. Keep going though, the curdled mess will reward you with a delicious cake. Will be repeating this recipe every time we forget to co-ordinate our banana buying and end up with a glut.

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Firebird

2012-02-01 16:16:59.556892

Firebird rated and commented on this recipe

Wonderful flavours, found that loaf took longer to cook than time stated, that maybe because there was a lot of mixture for a 2 pound loaf tin. However, an overall success and would definitely bake again.

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Belkey

2012-02-03 21:14:10.928399

Belkey rated and commented on this recipe

Wow-oh-wow! This was amazing, and very delicious warm.

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Anshita

2012-02-08 14:38:45.923388

Anshita rated and commented on this recipe

I tried this recipe over the weekend and found that its a disaster !!!!! The proportions are wrong. 250g of flour and 250g of sugar is too much for two eggs. The batter was too much for a loaf pan, so I filled another tin. The cake didn't rise and got burnt on the top as the temperature mentioned was too high. the cake was like a log and was not edible at all. I kept it for two days thinking what to do with it. It went bad and started smelling and I final threw both the cakes(I made a loaf and a round one, thanks to too much of batter) into the bin. I am a regular baker and have never had any disaster in any cakes and muffins I have made. This was so disappointing and I hate to say that I dint expect this from BBC Good food.

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Karoliina79

2012-02-12 18:16:13.755153

Karoliina79 rated and commented on this recipe

Lovely recipe - the cake came out moist and delicious. Perfect way to use up some over ripe bananas! I omitted the walnuts so that my daughter can have a slice in her lunch box (the school has banned nuts due to allergies), and I thought the cake was fine without them.

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SionedGoch

2012-02-13 13:45:35.035235

SionedGoch commented on this recipe

I'm not sure about this method. Just tried to make it and adding the butter after the eggs seems daft to me. I don't have electric hand held mixers but I did use my Kitchenaid. Mixed the bananas with the sugar, added 2 eggs, then tried to get the butter incorporated but it just wouldn't happen. Oh well, it comes out of the oven soon... Next time I make it I'll cream the butter with the sugar first.

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Gbobs1811

2012-02-15 21:13:21.210918

Gbobs1811 rated and commented on this recipe

Absolutely fab we loved it great mixture of flavours. Kept really most lovely with a cuppa then in the evening great as a desert with custard!

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Can't go wrong cake

2012-02-19 00:19:00.354736

Can't go wrong cake commented on this recipe

This banana bread is delicious, I would suggest either spreading the mixture into 2 tins or else cooking for nearly double as long (approx. 1hr45mins) on a lower heat-perhaps 150 celsius. Other than that, great!

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colandrina

2012-02-21 16:38:52.305885

colandrina commented on this recipe

Have made twice now, both times followed recipe to the letter, both times great results - moist and tasty cake that keeps for three days in an airtight container.

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felicity3377

2012-02-27 20:02:28.915715

felicity3377 rated and commented on this recipe

Made this and it is an easy recipe BUT I didnt like the method of adding the butter after the eggs, it seemed like i was mixing and mixing and the consistency didnt change! Also I cooked it for the correct time and it was slightly burnt on the top but not cooked in the middle. put it back in the owen for about another 20 mns, still not cooked, but getting blacker, so turned oven off but left cake in the oven to hopefully cook without burning! Result: Horrible looking cake but with a nice taste! Mine was more like an old fashioned bread pudding than a loaf.....as it tasted nice and not many ingredients, may try again but split the mixture between 2 tins as there was a lot of mixture for one tin!

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the Frenchie

2012-03-03 19:03:05.328151

the Frenchie rated and commented on this recipe

Delicious! My boyfriend had 4 slices in a row! I mixed the butter before the eggs as suggested and cooked on a lower heat (170) as suggested again, with a sheet of foil on it, so that it wouldn't burn. I baked it the exact time and it came out perfectly. Except that it didn't rise and I still don't know why...

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blondehistorian

2012-03-04 16:40:20.725226

blondehistorian rated and commented on this recipe

Had similar problems with this cake. I think next time I would spread it over two tins as the top is a little burnt. Should have listened to your advice above. Hoping it will be ok in the middle and will finish off as it has just come out of the oven as I need to put something else in.

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Sarniagirl

2012-03-28 04:04:47.552526

Sarniagirl commented on this recipe

I made this cake before reading the comments. I also was a bit concerned about the look of the mixture after adding the butter, but I don't think this affects the cake. I baked it for 1 hour 15 minutes and it looks and tastes fine. I think the problems that some cooks have had (too much mixture for the tin, too long to cook, cake going 'off') is due to the amount of banana in the recipe. I only used TWO large bananas, as I thought four large ones would be far too much for the other ingredients. I also covered mine after the first hour with a piece of baking paper. It would have been helpful if the recipe writer had given an approximate weight for the peeled banana.

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Sarniagirl

2012-03-28 04:06:18.738245

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Oops, forgot to rate.

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