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Easy Banana Bread

This moist banana bread comes together in only ten minutes and is delicious served warm with butter.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Australian
Servings 10 pieces

Ingredients
  

  • 300 g self-raising flour
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 140 g brown sugar
  • 75 ml vegetable oil
  • 100 ml milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 200 g mashed banana (roughly 2 medium bananas)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180℃.
  • Grease a loaf tin and line with baking paper, leaving two opposite edges overhanging. This will make it easier to lift the cooked banana bread out of the tin.
    Loaf tin greased and lined with baking paper
  • In a mixing bowl, combine the 300 g self-raising flour and ½ tsp ground cinnamon. Set aside.
    Flour and ground cinnamon mixed in bowl
  • In another mixing bowl, whisk the 140 g brown sugar and 75 ml vegetable oil until smooth.
  • Add the 2 eggs to the wet ingredients, whisk until smooth.
  • Add the 100 ml milk to the wet ingredients, whisk until smooth.
    Banana bread wet ingredients mixed in bowl
  • Add the 200 g mashed banana to the wet ingredients, whisk briefly to combine.
    Banana bread wet ingredients and mashed banana mixed in bowl
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir with a spatula or spoon until there's no dry flour remaining.
    Banana bread batter mixed in bowl
  • Pour into the lined loaf tin and smooth the top.
    Banana bread batter in loaf tin
  • Bake at 180℃ for 45 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out clean.
  • Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, this will help the banana bread come out cleanly in one piece. Remove, slice and serve warm with butter.
    Banana bread served warm with butter
Keyword Banana Bread, Banana Loaf, Basic Banana Bread Recipe, Easy Banana Bread Recipe