Strange black objects lurk in my freezer.
Whenever a banana remains unloved in the
fruit bowl I pop it into a freezer bag and into the freezer – skin and
all. I don’t mean those bananas that are only
fit for chooky food or the compost – just the ones that are a bit sad and past their eating
best. They are never wasted – just remove from the freezer and allow to
defrost a bit. Remove the skin and your
banana is ready to be mashed or pureed into it’s rightful flavoursome glory. Cakes, slices, smoothies - no waste.
This Banana Loaf recipe is quite different – not only does
it make use of those frozen bananas, but there is no butter – just the small
tin of Evaporated milk – a bit different!
The result is a dense but moist banana loaf with the extra goodness of
Rolled Oats, walnuts and spices. It is
even better the next day!
Preparation 5 minutes
Cooking 50
minutes – 1 hour 10 min
Ingredients
3 medium - large bananas, well mashed (if small you might need 4)
185 ml tin Carnation Evaporated Light Milk
¾ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
¾ cup Rolled Oats
plus extra to sprinkle on top before cooking
2 cups Self-Raising Flour - sifted
Small pinch of salt
½ teaspoon each of nutmeg and cloves
¼ cup sultanas
¼ cup walnuts – chopped plus extra to sprinkle on top before cooking
Preheat oven 175 °C
(I find 180 is a tad high – so just under – depends on your oven)
Line a large loaf tin (approx. 26cm x 14cm min) with
nonstick baking paper
Mash the bananas well and set aside.
Whisk the Tinned milk, sugar and eggs together in a large
bowl
Fold in the bananas
Add half the flour, fold through then add the rest of flour,
salt and Oats
Stir through the spices, sultanas and nuts.
Pour into prepared tin
Sprinkle over the extra rolled oats and a few chopped walnuts
bake approx. 50 min – 1 hour
10min. Depends on moistness of bananas
Check after 30 min and rotate pan in the oven.
Cake is cooked when skewer inserted, comes out clean.
When cooked, remove from oven and place on rack to cool
whilst still in pan.
Cake will firm up once cool.
Serve warm or cooled.
With a spread of butter if desired.
Enjoy! Colleen
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