Banana & walnut loaf

Banana & walnut loaf

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Cooking time

Prep: 15 mins Cook: 1 hr

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Cuts into 8 slices

This homely and wholesome cake is also light and moist, with the natural sweetness of sticky bananas and the warm toastiness of nuts

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Freezable
Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
399
protein
6g
carbs
53g
fat
20g
saturates
8g
fibre
2g
sugar
30g
salt
0.54g
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Ingredients

  • 100g softened butter, plus a little extra for greasing
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 225g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 4 very ripe bananas
  • 85g chopped walnuts
  • 50ml milk

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  • Tip

    Easy chocolate sauce

    Chop 300g plain chocolate and melt in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water with 1 tbsp butter. Warm 300ml double cream and 75ml milk in a heavy-based pan, pour onto the chocolate and stir to combine. Serve warm in a jug for pouring over.

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 2lb loaf tin with some butter and line the base with baking parchment, then grease this as well.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the butter, sugar and egg, then slowly mix in flour and baking powder. Peel, then mash the bananas. Now mix everything together, including the nuts.
  3. Pour your mixture into the tin and bake for 1 hr, or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool on a wire rack before removing from the loaf tin. The loaf can now be wrapped tightly in cling film and kept for up to 2 days, or frozen for up to 1 month. Defrost and warm through before serving. Serve in thick slices topped with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with a little Easy chocolate sauce (see recipe, below).

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2010

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yuliyaly's picture
yuliyaly03:32, 11th May, 2013

Just made if and it is lovely!!! Moist, light and tasty! Would definitely make again.
I added milk in at the very end with walnuts

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jmudd109:28, 23rd Apr, 2013

Another great tip! Crush some extra walnuts in your hand and sprinkle over the top of the mixture before you put it in the oven, this gives it a lovely sweet nutty crunch. If your feeling extra sweet a sprinkle of golden caster sugar too!

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jmudd109:26, 23rd Apr, 2013

I used golden caster sugar rather than normal caster, only 3 bananas (as it seemed too bananary the 1st time) and added a dash of mixed spice and cinnamon, absolutely delicious! Serve with fresh cream poured over whilst still warm rom the oven.
Once cooled its a lovely treat with a cup of tea with a blob of extra thick double cream. Enjoy x

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alice-x-x02:30, 20th Apr, 2013
5

this recipe makes a wonderful nutty banana loaf. After an hour of baking I put the temperature up to gas mark 5 and cooked for another 15 minutes. It didn't sink and has still lovely and soft on the inside. Will be making it again!

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missypoo06:56, 3rd Apr, 2013
1

Followed recipe to the letter. The loaf looked lovely when it came out of the oven. Left it in the tin for an hour to cool then cut some slices and what I got was a sludgy,gloopy consistency. Horrible! This is the worst thing I have baked in years. What a waste of ingredients. Don't bother!

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dottie6908:08, 7th Mar, 2013
5

I've made this many times, it's so good. Easy to make and tastes lovely. Makes a great easy pudding for family and great with a cuppa!!

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double_c_12301:49, 7th Mar, 2013

Just made this...tastes lovely!
I just used 3 bananas and added some chopped toffees to make banana walnut and caramel loaf.
Will definitely use this recipe again!

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ashsultana1508:27, 24th Feb, 2013

I tried this receipe for the first time today, followed receipe exactly and it came out great. Very moist & fluffy, accept I had to leave it in the oven for a lot longer than an hour, closer to 1hr30min at gas mark 4. Might try it with a higher gas mark next time.

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camelcart811:21, 17th Feb, 2013
4

I loved this recipe - really moist and light. I only used 3 bananas and added poppy seeds with a crunchy sunflower seed topping instead of walnuts - delicious!

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janeyc4104:24, 17th Feb, 2013
4

Just made this cake after getting acquiring some walnuts, used a round silicone cake mould instead of a loaf tin and it turned out great, very moist and not too sweet, made the chocolate sauce to go with it but didnt have any cream so just used dark choc and some butter and it was delicious, will certainly be making again.....with cream

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shirley126502:12, 10th Feb, 2013
4

forgot to rate before but can now add that if it is dry next day...just pop in toaster to warm it mmmmmmm

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shirley126511:17, 9th Feb, 2013
4

Just made this to use up some bananas and it was just great. Didn't add the milk and took it out oven 10 minutes BEFORE end of hour. It is lovely and moist with a lovely banana flavour and chunks of walnut. Don't think it's going to last very long !!!

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alytucker12:52, 24th Jan, 2013
5

Lovely and delicious, a good way to get rid of old black bananas too. Will definately do this again but will use a little less sugar as it is very sweet. Also used Flora buttery as I didn't have any real butter so better for the waistline too.

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alainejw10:27, 10th Dec, 2012
5

Oh also I don't add milk and I also split the mix into 2 tins. Its too thick to cook it all in one tin but that could be my oven.

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alainejw10:25, 10th Dec, 2012
5

Can't tell you how many times I've made this. My absolute fav cake and this recipe is perfect

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hazie100001:57, 17th Nov, 2012
4

I made with 3 large ripe bananas and pecans instead of walnuts. Went down a storm with the family. I thought it would be a disaster too as my 4 year old niece did most of the mixing. Oh yes...and used self raising flour instead of plain / baking powder.

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crazymothercooker10:15, 12th Nov, 2012
5

Everyone in our household loves this - especially fresh from the over while still warm. Only problem is that it's usually been eaten within the day!

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tigerjim07:25, 2nd Nov, 2012

This is a great hit with my kids. If you don't have any walnuts in the cupboard don't worry, you can replace with: dessicated coconut (really good - but cut the banana to 3 good sized bananas or 4 small); chestnuts qork really well too. I added ones already cooked from the supermarket. They were really good. It's difficult to get this one wrong.

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quattroformaggi02:11, 24th Oct, 2012

Great, for my recipe I used brown strong flour, brown sugar and little less than recommended, got to keep the weight off !
I heated the sugar and butter gently in a pan then mixed them along with the other ingredients, finally used some tin foil in the fan oven to keep the top of the cake from burning,
my cooking/baking experience Zero, but eating it was 10/10, perfect with a cuppa ........or 3 :-)

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