Recipe: Chocolate chip banana bread

Makes 1 loaf #vegetarian #veggie #snack

Ingredients :

• Butter unsalted & softened - 250g

• Muscovado sugar - 125g

• Golden caster sugar - 125g

• Eggs - 3

• Self-raising flour - 250g

• Vanilla extract - 1/4 tsp

• Hazelnuts - 50g chopped

• Bananas (very ripe) - 3 mashed

• Dark chocolate - 200g chopped into chunks

• Extra sugar to sprinkle on top

See equipment needed at the bottom

Instructions:

• Pre-heat oven to 170C/Gas 3/325F and line your loaf tin with parchment.

• Beat the butter and sugars together until it's smooth and pale.

• Add the eggs one at a time and beat, if needed add a spoonful of the flour to prevent it from separating.

• Mix in the the flour then the vanilla extract.

• Fold in the hazelnuts, the chocolate chunks and mashed bananas.

• Scoop the mixture into the tin and smooth the top. Sprinkle some sugar of the top and place in the oven to cook for 1 hour 25 minutes.

• It should have a crispy cracked top and you can check if its cooked by sticking a knife in the middle, it should come out clean apart from some melted chocolate. Remove it from the oven and leave it to cool on a cooling rack.

Equipment :

• Loaf tin 23cm x 13cm

• Baking parchment, reusable silicone parchment if possible.

• Large mixing bowl

• Large fork or electric whisk

• Scales

• Chopping board and knife