Spelt Banana Bread
Sophie Dahl says her Spelt Banana Bread is unadulterated manna - I absolutely agree!
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 75 g soft butter plus extra for greasing and serving
- 4 ripe bananas (medium sized) mashed up
- 200 g soft brown sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 170 g spelt 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!