Nutty Banana Bread

Ingredients:

75g butter, softened
100g light brown sugar or caster sugar
2 large eggs
3 ripe bananas
A few drops of vanilla extract, optional
200g plain wholemeal flour
2 heaped tsp baking powder
100g mixed walnut pieces and toasted hazelnuts
900g loaf tin, lightly greased and strip-lined

Method:

1. Preheat oven to gas mark 4 or 180°C.
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
3. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
4. Peel the bananas and mash on a plate, using a fork.
5. Beat mash into the creamed mixture, with the vanilla.
6. Sift in flour with the baking powder.
7. Fold in, then stir in the nuts.
8. Spoon the mixture into tin and smooth the top.
9. Bake for 40-50 mins until loaf is risen and golden (test by inserting a skewer into centre and it comes out clean).
10. Cool in tin for 10 mins then turn out and cool on a wire rack.
11. Slice and serve warm or cold, spread with butter.