Best banana bread recipe?

[slimpersoninside Profile]

Sorry all, failed to update .

I made the Mary Berry recipe. Perfectly decent cake but will try others as and when.

We have an Ocado delivery due next week, I'm trying to decide if I want to risk ordering bananas. I'm quite fussy about bananas and I'm not sure if they'll be "right" for me to eat, if not I'll have to make a lot of banana breads to use them up and I don't think we're ready for any more yet .

[Suelle Profile Website]

I picked up my copy of the free Weekend paper in Waitrose this morning. My first thought on seeing the photo of this Banana Bread recipe was that I'd be very unhappy if any of my cakes turned out looking like this, with a very stodgy under-baked layer at the bottom:

https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitro ... bread.html

[ZeroCook Profile]

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Yummy scrummy carrot cake is my go-to carrot cake recipe (originally via Suelle) and a regular tweak is to sub pureed banana for oil, usually half the oil. Works really well and less ripe better for less banana flavour but all banana ripenesses work.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Suelle, that cake looks as if the texture would be terrible, you can see the split in the batter, it also lacks any additional flavour to offset the banana

[Suelle Profile Website]

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Yummy scrummy carrot cake is my go-to carrot cake recipe (originally via Suelle) and a regular tweak is to sub pureed banana for oil, usually half the oil. Works really well and less ripe better for less banana flavour but all banana ripenesses work.

That's an interesting tweak!

[Suelle Profile Website]

Suelle, that cake looks as if the texture would be terrible, you can see the split in the batter, it also lacks any additional flavour to offset the banana

Quite! Perhaps the clue is in her description as a 'wellness' expert. Perhaps it's a cake we're not supposed to enjoy!

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Looks a bit pale to me, Suelle! Probably the addition of carrot; but I think bananas take on spices very well, so a touch of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla would certainly make a difference.
One thing that made me smile in the ingredients list was "2 British Blacktail Free Range Medium Eggs,

I can only imagine the chef´s got easy access to those, but I wonder what Mrs Jones from some rural location in the middle of England would do!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Karadekoolaid - you will notice it also uses Waitrose Essentials butter - the purpose of the recipe is to get you to buy Waitrose own brands, it's not exactly aimed at chefs!

I wonder if people do actually follow these recipes in such a way they go and buy the specified products, or if they just use the brands found in their kitchens? I can kind of see the point if you are supposed to use a multi-ingredient product such as cake mix or pasta sauce as a base for a recipe, but not things like eggs and butter!

[Suelle Profile Website]

Looks a bit pale to me, Suelle! Probably the addition of carrot; but I think bananas take on spices very well, so a touch of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla would certainly make a difference.
One thing that made me smile in the ingredients list was "2 British Blacktail Free Range Medium Eggs,

I can only imagine the chef´s got easy access to those, but I wonder what Mrs Jones from some rural location in the middle of England would do!

It's a recipe in a Waitrose publication, so pushes Waitrose products. The photo gives the cake a very unappetising colour - I don't know if it's the addition of carrot or a badly edited photo!