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Recipes : Class 40 - Chocolate, Walnut & Banana Loaf

Ingredients

• 115g butter
• 175 caster sugar
• 2 large bananas, peeled & mashed
• 2 eggs
• 80g plain flour
• 80g plain wholemeal
• 1 teaspoon bicarb & ground cinnamon
• 5 tablespoons boiling water
• 115g walnut pieces chopped
• 175g milk chocolate chips

Method

1. Beat the butter & sugar together until light & creamy.
2. Beat in the bananas then the egg, if the mixture curdles do not worry.
3. Fold in flour bicarb, & cinnamon.
4. Stir in the water to produce a soft mixture.
5. Gently fold in walnuts & chocolate chips.
6. Spoon the mixture into a greased lined 900g loaf tin, smooth the top.
7. Bake in oven 180ºC Gas mark 4 for approx1-1½hrs until dark golden in colour & well risen.