Try our banana cake with passion fruit icing, then check out our classic banana bread, vegan banana bread, banana malt loaf and more delicious banana bread recipes.
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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
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Step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Beat the butter, sugar, flours, baking powder, eggs and banana together.
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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.
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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.
Nutritional Information
- Kcals 428
- Fat 22.7g
- Carbs 49.4g
- Fibre 2.5g
- Protein 5.2g
- Salt 0.6g
