Sticky Banana Bread

[paul1979]

Okay, here it is... discuss.

200g Plain Flour (7oz for the Americans and 100 Windswept Crickets for the Japanese).
140g Caster sugar (5oz for those made in America and 3 glourious shouts for the Italians).
1 and a bit teaspoons of baking powder (balance it on a chopstick for rough amount).
Half a teaspoon of Bicarb soda.
1 teaspoon of Cinnamon.
2 Egg whites
3 Bananas (well and truely mashed)
4 Tablespoons of apple puree.
2 Tablespoons of Treacle (or 3, or 4 Tablespoons...)

Mix the dired stuff together, using a bowl and a wooden spoon. Then add the wet stuff and once more, mix well. Pour into a bread tin thing. Get the oven on and you can do it one of two ways...

180c (gas mark 4 no less!) and bake for 50 minutes to an hour.
Or cook it at a lower heat for longer.

Occasionally it may still be gooey inside, so do the test (you all know which one, the Japanese would use a samurai sword, I suggest a metal skewer). You may also need to tinfoil over the top to allow it to cook longer without burning the all important crust.

You can experiment to hell with this one, lob in choc chips, place it on an alter, drive carfully through harrogate whilst mixing the flour in a old WW2 shell.

[demi]

cheers!

im going to the supermarket later to get the rest of the ingredients and i will be making it today with my daughter.
she loves helping me out in the kitchen. i get her to stand at the sink with an apron on and she skiddles in the sink with the washing up. but the best part is defiantly getting to eat the end product!

[paul1979]

Brave person taking on a recipe I have penned. Hope it goes okay! The one in the picture was cooked for almost two hours on a lower heat, so erm, well, yeah... just good luck! I expect it to taste somewhat like heaven, slightly cloudy.

[oldjerry]

Coincidence ,but Mrs OJ used a very similar recipe(probably off All recipes,she likes that site),and I said: ''NO FAT IN THIS IT'LL BE A BIT IFFY'' (risky at the best of times) and how wrong I was.Same recipe,lovely cake. Thoroughly recommended.

[greenorelse]

We had some over-ripe bananas and an avocado. We were also going to visit some friends. So I bought some castor sugar and treacle and gave this a whirl.

Brilliant, is all I can say. It went down a treat.

Three tips: you don't need the eggs, just add a little more water to the apple purée - don't cook for much longer than an hour if you want it mega moist - and be very careful with the bicarb and baking powder, use scant measures, the flavour of the bp can come through.

I suppose, if your guests could resist, you could keep it a day or two and let it get really soggy.

We don't really 'do' sweet stuff but this could be the once-in-a-while sugar hit, it's so easy.

[greenorelse]

Oh, no eggs also makes it cholesterol-free. You can use buckwheat flour, making it gluten-free too. It does stay together and slice really well, honest, try it!