Step 1:
Get all your ingredients ready, and, if possible, take the butter out of the fridge 1h before.
Step 2:
Cream butter and sugar in a stand mixer with the whisk attachment (or by hand) until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes at medium speed. Scrape the side of the bowl, making sure all the sugar gets incorporated into the butter.
Step 3:
With the whisk still running, slowly add the eggs, and half of the flour to avoid curdling.
Step 4:
Add the rest of the flour, the vanilla, bicarbonate and mashed banana.
Step 5:
Butter a loaf tin and pour in the batter leaving 1 inch to the top (this recipe will do for 2 x 2lb loaf tins).
Step 6:
Cook at 170C for 25 minutes, or until a skewer into the thickest part comes out dry. While the banana bread bakes, make the butter cream icing. Beat the butter and half of the sugar in a bowl. Add the remaining sugar and just enough milk to loosen everything up to soft peak consistency.
Step 7:
Put the icing in a piping bag and pipe onto the cooled banana bread.
Step 8:
Garnish with toppings of your choice.
We hope you enjoy! Please make sure to send pictures of your finished cake to [email protected]
I joined The Felix Project in November 2024 as a Chef Trainer, to lead the new kitchen employability scheme here in Poplar. I'm originally from Milan, Italy and came to London more than 20 years ago for a master’s degree in environmental policy and sustainability before following my passion for food (I am Italian after all!). I decided to follow my ambition of becoming a chef and have never looked back. My motto in the kitchen is that food tastes better when it has a story to tell.
I love food for it's magic ability to bring different people together and look forward to sharing that with you, our Felix Heroes each month.
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