Banana loaf with passion fruit frosting
Serves 10
Easy
Total time:
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
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- 75g buttersoftened
- 110g soft brown sugar
- 125g plain flour
- 75g wholemeal flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 4 very ripe bananasmashed
- 75g pecanseach snapped in half
frosting
- 75g butter
- 75g cream cheese
- 150g icing sugar
- 3 passion fruithalved and seeds and pulp scooped out
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal428
- fat22.7g
- carbs49.4g
- fibre2.5g
- protein5.2g
- salt0.6g
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.
