Banana Loaf with Lemon Drizzle

As you know, baking is not my forte.  So some overripe bananas spurred me into action.  The result was surprisingly successful given a couple of hitches.

Ingredients:

140g softened butter (plus a bit more to butter the tin)

140g white sugar

2 eggs, beaten

140g self-raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 ripe bananas, mashed

For the icing – 50g Icing Sugar, lemon juice

Method:

Heat your oven to 160C (about 320 F)

Butter a loaf tin – I only had a square one.  Line it with baking paper

Cream your butter and sugar together – things were going smoothly until I discovered that my stick blender was broken.  So I did this by hand – so it was nowhere near as smooth and creamy as it should have been. 

Slowly add the beaten eggs together with a smidge of flour.

Fold in the flour and baking powder and the mashed bananas.

Pour into your tin and bake for 30-40 minutes.

Leave in the tin for 10 minutes or so and then turn it out onto a wire rack.

When cool drizzle the icing over it (ahem it wasn't quite cool).

Need Some Inspiration? Try Some Banana!

Bananas Fosters

 

Food on Friday: December gave us some great ways to use bananas.  I have selected a couple that I found quite inspirational.

Bananas Fosters by Tina of Squirrel Head Manor (at the top)– makes me so hungry…

Banana Bread Cheesecake Bars by Jo and Sue

Food on Friday: December 17

It's the second Friday of the month so here is Food on Friday. 

As you can see, there are 4 new themes – Holiday Treats, Prawns & Shrimp, Banana and Bread.   

I'll be pinning your creations to the relevant Pinboards –

Holiday Treats, Prawns & Shrimp, Banana and Bread

While you can still link up at any time during the month, can I ask that you put one or two dishes for each category in right away.  This should result in a good number of dishes for us all to explore.  This worked well in November – thanks to all!

To add your dishes, just put the name of the dish together with your blog name/name into the first Mr Linky box you will find below.  Then paste the url for your post about it into the second box.

Let's make the last Food on Friday of the year an even greater one!

Need Some Inspiration? Try Bananas!

Mango Banana Coconut Smoothie

Food on Friday: Bananas came up with over 30 links – down a bit because of the lure of the Olympics, I suspect.   I have selected a few banana delights to inspire you today.  To see the whole collection, head on over to this Pinboard (which also has links from the earlier banana Food on Fridays)

The pic at the top is from Lisa's Kitchen a lovely Mango Banana Coconut Smoothie

Frozen Banana Dessert by Cooking Weekends – simple and stunning.

Banana Layer Cake with Vanilla Frosting by James & Everett

Bourbon Vanilla Banana Bread with Candied Walnuts by Finding Time for Cooking

Banana Peanut Butter Ice Cream by Crazed Mom

Food on Friday : Bananas

 ON

I hope you enjoy eating bananas, because for this Food on Friday we are all going to go bananas!

To add your dishes, just put the name of the dish together with your blog name/name into the first Mr Linky box you will find below.  Then paste the url for your post about it into the second box.

I'll be pinning the dishes to this Pinboard which will make it easy for you to check them out at a glance. 

In my opinion you can never have too many banana cake recipes – go for it!