Banana and passion fruit loaf
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + cooling
- Easy
- Serves 8
Ingredients
- 75g butter, softened
- 110g light brown muscovado sugar
- 130g plain flour
- 75g wholemeal flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 4 very ripe bananas, mashed
- 75g walnuts, toasted and roughly chopped
- 150g icing sugar
- 4 passion fruit, halved and seeds and pulp scooped out
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Beat the butter, sugar, flours, baking powder, eggs and banana together. Stir in the nuts and spoon into a lined and buttered 450g loaf tin.
- STEP 2
Bake for 1¼ - 1½ hours or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in the tin then lift out and cool on a rack.
- STEP 3
Mix the icing sugar and most of the passion fruit juice to make an icing that will drizzle easily. Leave the seeds in if you like, or sieve them out.
- STEP 4
Drizzle the icing over the cake and use the remaining seeds and pulp to serve.