Use Locally - Issue 59 March 2018
Cake and an nd Bake e Banana and a W alnut Lo oaf Walnut Loaf If y If you ou ha have ve o overripe verripe bananas in the e frui fruitt bo bowl wl then d don’t on’t bin b them moist cake will keep – just whizz whizz up up this delicious delicious mo istt lloaf oaf cak e instead instead. IItt wi ill k eep up days wrapped paper ffor or u p to 5 d ays wra pped in greaseproof greasep proof pa per or or ffoil oil and sto sstored red in tin. an airtight airtight ti in.
IIngredients: ngredientss: • 175g unsalted butter butter,, softened • 175g light soft brown sugar • J VHOI UDLVL J VHOI UDLVLQJ à RXU QJ à RXU • 2 tsp ground mixed m spice • ½ tsp baking powder p • 3 medium egg eggs gs • 75g walnut ha halves, lves, chopped roughly chopp ped • 2 large ripe ba bananas, ananas, mashed peeled and ma ashed lemon with 2 tsp lemo on juice • Icing sugar sugar,, to dust
Makes Mak es 10 Slices Slice es R eady in 1 hou ur Ready hour 45 minutes, minutes, plus pllus cooling time 42
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Preh Preheat heat the oven to 170C, Fan 150 150C, C, Gas 3. Grease tw Grea ase and line the base and the two wo long sides of a 900g loaf tin with baking paper paper..
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Spoo Spoon on the mixture into the prepared d tin and levell the surface. Bake for 1hour - 1 hour 15 minutes minu utes until risen and golden and a skewer inserted inser rted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. clean n.
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es then turn Leavve to cool in the tin for 10 minut Leave minutes completely. out onto o a cooling rack and cool com mpletely. sugar.. Dustt thickly with icing sugar
TIP Add a creamy soft frosting instead of o the dusting of ici icing sugar,, if liked. Simply beat 100g ing sugar 1 full-fat unsalted alted butter soft cheese c with 100g very soft uns sifted until smooth, then beat in 100g sifte ed icing sugar. suga ar.
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