Sophie Dahl says her Spelt Banana Bread is unadulterated manna - I absolutely agree!
Course Cake, Snack
Cuisine British
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings 6
Author Sophie Dahl
Ingredients
75gsoft butterplus extra for greasing and serving
4ripe bananas (medium sized)mashed up
200gsoft brown sugar
1eggbeaten
1tablespoonvanilla extract
1teaspoonbicarbonate of soda
1pinchsalt
170gspelt flour (see notes for alternatives)
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas 4. Grease a 13 x 23-cm/ 9 x 5 inch bread tin. (I used my largest loaf tin).
Pour the mashed bananas into a big mixing bowl. Mix in the butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract.
Add the bicarbonate of soda and salt and mix in the flour last. Pour into the prepared tin.
Bake for 1 hour, remove and cool, then serve in slices with a little butter.
Notes
I thought my mixture looked all wrong when I made it with flecks of butter but I needn't have worried it turned out perfectly!If you don't have spelt flour then wholemeal flour or a mix of wholemeal and plain flour works well. You can even use a mix of strong wholemeal and self raising flour if that's all you have!