Best Banana-Choc Bread

Name: Best Banana-Choc Bread
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 tsp demerara sugar; 2 tsp cocoa nibs; 40 g dark chocolate, finely chopped; ¼ tsp ground cinnamon; ¼ tsp table salt; ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 55 g buttermilk; 80 g self-raising flour; 1 large egg; 125 g ripe banana (peeled weight), mashed; 100 g soft dark brown sugar, free from hard lumps; 70 ml vegetable oil plus extra for greasing

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Vegetarian Kitchen

By Prue Leith and Peta Leith

Published 2019

About

This loaf, served warm with custard, is childish heaven. But it’s good as a not-too-sweet tea-time cake too. Useful for using up over-ripe bananas – the riper they are the more sweet and delicious your cake will be!

Ingredients

100 g soft dark brown sugar, free from hard lumps
70 ml vegetable oil plus extra for greasing
1

Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas mark 6. Grease the two long sides of a 1lb (450g) loaf tin and line the bottom and short sides with a single long strip of baking parchmen