Banana bread

I can't say bananas are one of my favourite fruits, but banana bread...mmm. It is totally underrated as a cake, I think. I had some bananas that were a bit too ripe, so decided to make it, and it came out really delicious. The only problem is that I couldn't be bothered to lower the oven shelf, so put it on the higher one thinking it'd be ok, and the top burnt a little, so it wasn't very photogenic banana cake.

Adding sugar to the mixture...I used muscovado as there wasn't any cater sugar to be found.

Banana Bread (from BBC food, and tweaked a bit)

Ingredients
225g/8oz self-raising flour
100g/4oz butter
150g/5oz caster sugar
450g/1lb bananas (the softer the better), peeled and mashed
½ tsp salt
2 eggs
175g/6oz mixed dried fruit (I just used sultanas)
1tsp vanilla essence

Method
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
2. Mix all the ingredients except the dried fruit together. You can do this in a food processor or by hand in a basin.
3. When they're all thoroughly mixed, add the dried fruit. Spoon the mixture into a 1kg/2lb non-stick loaf tin, spread it out evenly and bake it for one and a half hours. The loaf is done when a skewer pushed into its middle comes out clean.
4. Cool on a wire rack, then slice before serving.