Thursday 10 November 2011

Banana Bread

Banana Bread brings back many many nostalgic memories of my friend Kathy. I met Kathy when we moved into our first rental property in New Zealand. There was a knock at the front door and there stood Kathy with a freshly baked loaf of banana bread and a welcome to Shirley smile. Kathy has been one of God's best gifts to me. We live a few thousand kilometers apart now but we have the kind of friendship that we can pick up where we left off no matter how long it's been. Kathy used to add a cup of baking chocolate to her recipe so if you are in need of a chocolate fix feel free to add it in.

Ingredients

Gather your ingredients and baking equipment.
Sons are an added bonus and great helpers  ;-)
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 5 ml Vanilla Essence
  • 4 over ripe banana's mashed
  • 3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

Method.

Cream butter and sugar

Add eggs and Vanilla Essence
(love the colour of free range egg yolks!!)
Mix till creamy texture
Add mashed banana and mix well

Add Bicarb, flour and baking powder.
Grease and flour your favourite bread tin
Add mix to tin and bake for 1 hour at 160 'C fan forced
Cool on cooling rack
Slice and serve plain or a light spread of butter and enjoy!
Store in an air tight container
 Blessings





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4 comments:

  1. Chareen,

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  2. Thanks for joining the linkup!

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  3. You are welcome Rachel. Thank you for hosting

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  4. Thanks Erin I popped on over and had a look :)

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