I adapted this one from a Nigella Lawson recipe - she's right, it does produce the most wonderful fug of banana-y smell that permeates the whole house.
You'll need:
some rather squishy bananas (I used three large ones), mashed
125g butter
150g brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
a teaspoon of vanilla extract
60g walnuts, chopped
100g sultanas or raisins
175g plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarb of soda
a pinch of salt
First of all, stick the oven on to about 175 degrees C, and find a loaf tin (I used a silicon one, so I didn't have to faff about with greasing or greaseproof paper).
Melt your butter (either in the microwave or in a small pan), and then add the sugar to it. Beat the two together, then add in the eggs - beat until it's blended really well. Mix in the mashed bananas, and then the vanilla extract.
Add the sultanas and walnuts (you like taste testing these, so I darkly suspect we didn't have quite the right amount).
Stir in the flour, bicarb, baking powder and pinch of salt, and make sure it's all mixed together really well.
Decant into your loaf tin, then bake in the oven for an hour. Poke a skewer or long pointy thing into the cake - if it comes out clean, then the cake's finished.
Leave to cool in the tin, and then turn out. Try not to eat it all at once...
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