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Try our banana and passion fruit loaf, then check out our classic banana bread, vegan banana bread, banana malt loaf and more delicious banana bread recipes.

This easy banana loaf is an exotic twist on a classic banana bread. We have used passion fruit to make this banana loaf more zingy, try it out for afternoon tea to use up overripe bananas...

  • 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

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal423
  • fat15.7g
  • saturates6g
  • carbs61.9g
  • fibre3g
  • protein6.8g
  • salt0.5g

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.

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