Brilliant banana loaf recipe

I love this recipe and make it very regularly. Always gets a very positive response when eaten. To bake it does take longer than the recipe suggests but worth it for a delicious and moist banana cake. I was dubious about the icing but it really does give it that extra little something.

Very moist, yummy cake, delicious! Although the reason I've given it 4 starts was the timing wasn't right. It took an hour to cook so I covered it in foil half way through. Otherwise great recipe! I also added 50g of chocolate chips which worked very well.

This loaf takes much longer than 30 minutes to bake. I made it as I was short of time, feeling annoyed that it's taking forever to bake. I skewered it after 45 mins and the mix was still runny in the centre.

I followed this recipe to the letter and the loaf is lovely! It needs approximately 50 minutes in the oven (gas mark 4) and not 30, but everything else works fine. Easy to make and tastes yum! 5 stars for the cake, 4 stars for the recipe (timing needs adjusted).

Made this today and had to leave in the oven for much more longer than 30 minutes. I would not make it again, if I did by any chance. I would increase the flour and reduce the sugar and the comments have suggested

Hi. I've just made this this morning and the kids love it. Can I freeze it? So I can use it for pack lunch treat. Easy recipe to follow

I made this today and followed the recipe, I used a loaf tin and it took 30min with 10min cooling down time. The only difference was I used brown sugar and 4 small bananas, it came out great. Love this recipe.

I had to leave this in for another 10 mins which resulted in a very dark cake on the outside. Did anyone else reduce the temperature when leaving in longer? I also found that the banana had sunk to the bottom. Tasted yummy but not sure I will bother with this one again.

After reading all the comments I was really confused about which ingredients to use and bemused that the cooking time says 40 mins by the picture but still says 30 mins in the method. Someone has obviously changed it based on comments but not in both places! I didn't make this exact recipe as I thought I'd try another person's recommended variation: 200g flour, fat, sugar and 3 bananas; I also added some chocolate chips. It was sloppy, very sweet (especially with the icing), took over an hour to cook and didn't bake a fluffy cake. My daughter loves it but then she has a sweet tooth. I think with less sugar it would go nicely with ice cream as a dessert but is hard to eat as a slice of cake. I usually use Mary Berry's recipe on the Queen of Everything site and I'll go back to that next time. That is much less sweet so I might add the chocolate chips and icing to that. Sorry this isn't really a review of the above recipe but I thought I'd share anyway. :-)

This was lovely cold but even better served warm. I added 50g dark chocolate chips which went with it really well and some banoffee spread I had which sunk and was wasted. Didn't bother with the icing as I thought it was sweet enough. Like a lot of other people, I cooked for 30 minutes then covered with foil and cooked for another 20 minutes and I'd say it was just cooked. Really nice, will be making again.