Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

Ingredients

• 125 g unsalted butter
• 175 g soft brown sugar (eg, light muscovado)
• 2 medium eggs
• 300 g plain flour / all purpose flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• tiny pinch of salt
• 125 ml milk
• 3 medium sized bananas
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 100 g chocolate chips

Instructions

1. 1

   Heat oven to 180ºC (160ºC fan). Grease and line a 1lb loaf tin with greaseproof paper.

2. 2

   Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth (by hand or electric mixer).

3. 3

   Add the eggs one at a time and stir in well.

4. 4

   Sift in half the flour with the bicarbonate of soda and salt, and mix.

5. 5

   Add in the milk and stir in followed by the remaining flour, chocolate chips and vanilla.

6. 6

   Cut up the bananas in to small chunks (or mash them up) and then fold them in to the mixture.

7. 7

   Fill the loaf tin with the mixture and bake for around one hour until golden brown and until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cover the top with foil if it starts to brown too quickly.

8. 8

   Allow to cool in the tin for at least 10 minutes before turning out. To serve, cut into thick slices and serve warm or at room temperature.