Cinnamon Crunch Banana Bread
Banana Bread
4 ripe bananas, mashed & 1 for the topping
Pinch salt
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbs cinnamon
1 1/2 cups of allpurpose flour
Cinnamon Crunch
50g toasted pecans, chopped
3 tbs muscovado sugar 2
tbs cinnamon
Method:
Mix muscovado sugar, cinnamon and toasted pecans together and set aside. In a bowl, mash the bananas and salt with a fork and set aside. Mix the melted butter into the banana mixture. Whip the sugar, eggs and vanilla until thick and creamy. Fold the egg mixture into banana mixture until combined. Sift the baking soda, cinnamon and flour. Fold the dry ingredients to the banana mixture, gradually. Make sure not to overmix the batter. Pour the batter into a loaf baking tin. Cut the extra banana in half and place it on the top, overlapping each other. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture on top. Bake at 175’c for 60 minutes.