Tag: bananas

Bread, Cakes

Banana Loaf Cake – Banana Bread

It was sugested to me that I might make a Banana Bread, or more accurately Banana Loaf Cake.  I have made one before, but that was a chocolate flavoured one.  This one today is a slight variation on a recipe that I found in The Guardian, which used walnuts where I used roasted hazelnuts.  I […]

Cakes

Chocolate Banana Loaf Cake

Today I baked a lovely Chocolate and Banana Loaf Cake, and topped with a chocolate ganache.  This is a simple recipe which I adapted, slightly, from BBC Good Food.  That had banana chips on the top as well but I didn’t see the need for them and am always slightly dubious about quite how hard […]

Muffins

Healthy Carrot & Banana Breakfast Muffins

I saw another lovely recipe on Donal Skehan’s site. It was for a muffin made with the pulp of juiced carrots and apples with ginger.  I was intrigued and decided to make a version of my own, but using carrot pulp only.  Certainly this recipe is a novel use of the pulp left over from […]

Muffins

Banoffee Muffins

Today I made Banoffee Muffins.  This is a variation on Banoffee Pie, which is described in Wikipedia thus:   “Banoffee pie is an English dessert pie made from bananas, cream and toffee from boiled condensed milk (or dulce de leche), either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. “ A […]