Walnut and White Chocolate Banana Loaf

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So…. today is the one year anniversary of when I started designing my blog! 💖 I figured that it would be fitting to bake this twisted banana loaf in celebration of the start of my blogging journey 🤷🏻‍♀️. Massive thank you to all 1,500+ of my followers who have so far liked and shared my posts, here’s to many more years! ☺️❤️

I find that banana breads either turn out perfect or they fail spectacularly 😂. Fortunately, today my banana bread came out beautifully- a super soft and moist banana infused loaf cake, filled with crunchy walnut pieces and creamy chunks of white chocolate.

However, I had a plan B in mind should this loaf have turned out less than perfect- all I would have had to do was pop a small slab of salted butter in a frying pan on a medium heat until completely melted. Then I would have sliced my banana loaf (usually when they don’t work, they’re completely raw in the middle so the slicing process is very very messy), then fry the slices until they’re golden brown on both sides. All that’s left to do is dust it with a little icing sugar and you’ll have yourself some incredibly decadent banana French toast. So, technically this post has two recipes in one 😇 .

Ingredients 

  • 4 ripe bananas, peeled
  • 250 grams of golden caster sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 140 grams of unsalted butter (softened)
  • 250 grams of plain flour
  • 2 teaspoons of baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 100 grams of chopped walnuts
  • 135 grams of white chocolate (chopped into small chunks)

Method

  1. Pre- heat the oven to 180C/ 160 C Fan/ Gas Mark 4. Butter your loaf tin and line with baking parchment.
  2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas with the back of a fork, then add the sugar and mix together. Then add the eggs and mix again until fully incorporated.
  3. Add your softened butter to the mix and stir until the mixture is properly mixed together. Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into the mixture and fold together with a spatula to keep the air in.
  4. Add the walnuts, chocolate chunks and vanilla and then fold again so the mix is properly combined and the chocolate and walnuts are properly spread out.
  5. Pour your mixture into your loaf tin (make sure it is about 3/4 full to leave room for your loaf to rise.
  6. Bake for approximately 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for about 45 minutes then lift the loaf out of the tin using your baking parchment- I left my loaf to cool outside of the tin for about 15 minutes as I like my banana bread really cool.
  7. Cut into thick slices and eat right away or try out the French toast recipe I suggested earlier ☺️ Enjoy!