Chocolate banana bread

Name: Chocolate banana bread
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 75 g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing; 125 g Billington’s Golden Caster Natural Unrefined Cane Sugar; 185 g plain flour; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; ½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp fine salt; 3 large ripe bananas (about 325g peeled weight); 2 eggs; 100 g buttermilk; 100 g dark chocolate drops

Banana bread is always a crowd pleaser, and melting dark chocolate drops make it even better.

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Vegetarian

Makes10 Slices
CourseCake
Prepare20 mins
Cook1 hr 15 mins
Total time1 hr 35 mins
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75g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
125g Billington’s Golden Caster Natural Unrefined Cane Sugar
185g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp fine salt
3 large ripe bananas (about 325g peeled weight)
2 eggs
100g buttermilk
100g dark chocolate drops

Preheat the oven to 170ºC, gas mark 3; grease and line a 900g loaf tin with baking parchment. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan, take off the heat and stir in the sugar, then set aside to cool while you measure the dry ingredients into a bowl. In a separate bowl, mash the bananas.
Using a balloon whisk, one at a time whisk the eggs into the pan with the butter and sugar. Whisk in the mashed bananas, then the buttermilk. Finally gently mix in the dry ingredients (don’t over-whisk).
Tip half the mixture into the tin, then scatter over two-thirds of the chocolate. Layer over the remaining cake mixture and top with the rest of the chocolate. Bake for 1 hour-1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Slice to serve.

Cook’s tip

Leftovers: Buttermilk

Traditionally, this is what’s left when cream is churned into butter. Buttermilk in pots is made from cultured milk. It is a little thinner than yogurt, with a slight acidity that adds flavour to bakes and creates extra rise when combined with bicarbonate of soda.

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