Mary Berry’s all-in-one banana bread is ‘perfectly formed’ and ready in one hour
Banana bread is a classic bake, but it can be hard to perfect. Luckily, Mary Berry's recipe couldn't be easier with her all-in-one method.
Banana bread is a scrumptious cake and a great way to prevent bananas from going to waste.
However, it can often be hard to execute, with bananas making it tricky to know when the bread is done.
Mary Berry’s recipe notes said: “Mary Berry’s banana bread is small, but perfectly formed and loaded with chocolate chips.
“You can double this classic loaf recipe if you have lots of bananas to use up.”
This recipe has more than 200 five-star ratings on BBC Good Food, with bakers raving about how delicious it is.
Ingredients:
One ripe banana with a peeled weight of 100g
One tablespoon of milk
50g soft butter
75g plain flour
75g caster sugar
Half a teaspoon of baking soda
Half a teaspoon of baking powder
One free-range egg
50g dark chocolate chips
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Method:
Preheat the oven to 160C or 140C Fan before greasing and lining a loaf tin with baking paper.
Use a fork to mash the peeled banana in a mixing bowl before adding the remaining cake ingredients, except the chocolate chips.
Beat the mixture with an electric hand whisk until combined and spoon. Next, carefully pour the chocolate chips and spoon the mixture into the prepared loaf tin.
Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until well risen, shrinking away from the tin slightly and the top is golden brown.
Set aside to cool for 10 minutes before removing from the tin and leaving it to cool on a wire rack.
For the optional decoration, break the chocolate into small pieces and add to a heatproof bowl.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water.
Stir regularly and then pipe the chocolate onto the loaf in whatever pattern you like.
If you want to double the quantities of this recipe, bake in a 2lb loaf tin for 55 minutes.
