South African Banana Bread made from scratch
An Easy Recipe to make your own Banana Bread from scratch
Banana bread has gained in popularity in recent years. I have seen it on menus at trendy coffee shops like the very popular Butter All Day and Baard and Co., but franchised coffee shops like Ou Meul and Bootlegger serve banana bread as well!
The best banana bread is eaten straight out the oven, and what better way to achieve that, than to bake your own? Slicing it up whilst still warm, banana bread is delicious with generous dollop of butter, which will melt and fill the whole slice with deliciousness! Make your own, using the recipe below.
Ingredients
170g butter
200 g castor sugar
5 ripe bananas
2 eggs
240 g cake flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
100 g walnuts
How to make a Banana Bread
Take the butter out the oven, and cut it in small cubes, so that it will get to room temperature quickly.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).
Cut four of the five bananas in slices, then mash with a fork on a plate.
Mix the butter and sugar together until smooth.
Add the eggs and vanilla essence, and mix well.
Sift the cake flour, baking power and bicarbonate of soda and add these dry ingredients to the mixture, small amounts at a time.
Chop half the walnuts into chunks and add to the mixture too.
Make sure the dry ingredients are well mixed in, but be careful not to overmix.
Line a baking tin with some baking paper, then pour the mixture into it. This will make it easier to get the banana bread out the baking tin once baked.
Cut the last banana lengthways and arrange it on top of the mixture, along with the remaining walnuts.
Bake the baanana bread in the middle of the oven for 45 minutes. You will know it is ready when a cake fork comes out clean.
That’s it! Your banana bread is ready. Leave to cool in the tin for 10-15 minutes before taking it out the tin, to prevent breaking our crumbling your banana bread.
Serve the banana bread in slices with a generous dollop of butter on top. Enjoy!
Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
Roasted Dad tip: You can keep the banana bread wrapped up in clingwrap outside of the fridge for a few days, after that it will go stale. You can revitalise stale banana bread by toasting slices in a hot pan (with no oil or butter) for a few minutes on each side. This is also a great way to get some crunch all around.
About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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