Banana and cashew nut bread

Name: Banana and cashew nut bread
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 125g butter, soft; 130g brown sugar, plus extra for sprinkling; 400g ripe banana, mashed with a fork; 3 eggs; 1/4 cup milk; 300g plain flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 2 pinches salt; 200g cashews, lightly toasted and roughly chopped

Jeremy and Jane Strode

October 19, 2011

Banana and cashew nut breadQUENTIN JONES

Time:1-2 hoursServes:12

A perfect snack or side dish.

Ingredients

125g butter, soft
130g brown sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
400g ripe banana, mashed with a fork
3 eggs
1/4 cup milk
300g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 pinches salt
200g cashews, lightly toasted and roughly chopped

Method

Pre-heat oven to 180C. Grease and lightly flour a 27cm x 12cm x 6cm loaf tin. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add banana and combine. Add eggs one at a time, followed by milk, and stir until combined. Fold through remaining dry ingredients and spoon into tin.
Sprinkle the top with brown sugar. Bake for 1 hour or until risen in the middle and a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack. Serve with whipped butter. (To make whipped butter, whisk very soft butter with an equal weight of icing sugar until light and fluffy.)