A TASTY TREAT

We are going to be digging in on how to bake the most perfect treat – banana bread.

It’s an easy-to-make treat that your friends and family will love. Here we go!

PREP TIME: 15min    COOK TIME: 90min        SERVES: 5

Ingredients

3 large bananas

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon of Prestige Vanilla

1 cup of mala

1 teaspoon Chapa Mandashi.

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 a teaspoon of iliki (cardamom)

1/2 cup Prestige Original, softened to room temperature.

5 tablespoons of dark brown sugar.

2 large eggs, at room temperature

Method

In a bowl, whisk the Prestige Original and the sugar until fluffy. You can use normal sugar, but if you can get your hands on brown sugar, go with that coz it’s the best for this.

Add the eggs and the Prestige Vanilla then whisk it until light yellow and frothy.

In a separate bowl, add the flour, Chapa Mandashi, cinnamon and iliki. Mix it all up until combined.

Pour the dry ingredients into the bowl.

The main ingredient for this is bananas. Make sure they are ripe, and the spottier the skin, the better. If you have a huge batch of bananas that you cannot finish, peel them, wrap them in cling film and freeze them. When you need to bake with them, remove a couple, let them thaw and then proceed.

Then add your mashed bananas into the bowl, pour in the mala, and then mix it in until everything is combined. Use Mala because it enables the bread to be super moist. It is a major ingredient and a game changer as well and one that must be in this recipe. You can use sour cream/plain yoghurt as a substitute too.

Pour this into a 9×5 pan – greased and dusted. Garnish the top with some sliced bananas, and some rolled oats too.

Proceed to bake at 180 degrees for 90 minutes. At the 45 min mark (loosely cover it with foil, so that the top does not brown too much, then return it to the oven and finish baking for the remaining 45 min.

Remember, time will be less or more depending on the size of pan you use, adjust time accordingly. Always test for doneness. Pass a skewer through once done and if it comes out clean, you are done.

Moist, flavourful, warm, spicy, a perfectly crunchy top and very soft body! Nothing is more perfect than that! You can make some on Sunday and eat some over the week- that is- if it will last through the day anyway! Just warm it for 20 seconds and it will be as good as freshly baked!

Serve yours with some tea, or coffee, or some custard – and because it is this soft and moist, you can even have some on its own.