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Banana loaf with passion fruit frosting

Name: Banana loaf with passion fruit frosting
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Ingredients: butter 75g, softened; soft brown sugar 110g; plain flour 125g; wholemeal flour 75g; baking powder 2 tsp; eggs 2; very ripe bananas 4, mashed; pecans 75g, each snapped in half; butter 75g; cream cheese 75g; icing sugar 150g; passion fruit 3, halved and seeds and pulp scooped out

1 hour 30 minutes
serves 10
Easy

Our take on the ever-popular banana loaf. Made with pecans and a tropical passion fruit frosting, this is a teatime treat to share with family and friends

December 19, 2014 at 2:33 pm

Ingredients

butter 75g, softened
soft brown sugar 110g
plain flour 125g
wholemeal flour 75g
baking powder 2 tsp
eggs 2
very ripe bananas 4, mashed
pecans 75g, each snapped in half

frosting

butter 75g
cream cheese 75g
icing sugar 150g
passion fruit 3, 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.
Step 2

Stir in the nuts and spoon into a lined and buttered 450g loaf tin. 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

To make the frosting beat the butter until soft, beat in the cream cheese and then the sugar and 2 tbsp passion fruit juice. Frost the loaf and drizzle over the remaining juice, leave seeds in if you like or sieve them out.