Saturday 28 September 2019

Autumn Vibes

🍁🍂Autumn Vibes 🍁🍂
Autumn is well and truly upon us. The fallen leaves are starting to appear in the garden and everything's just feeling little cooler.
It's a great time to experiment with new recipes for hearty meals to warm us up.
Today's projects have been making Sloe Vodka and preparing onions for my red onion chutney- served at Christmas with our cheese boards.
Feedback requests yesterday say you would like to see some more easy tasty home baking so that's what you shall get!
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Banana & Dorset Honey Loaf

The humble Banana loaf is probably one of the simplest but tastiest loaf cakes. I love thrifty baking so this is a good 'waste not ,want not' recipe.

 It is a  super simple recipe that uses up the ends of your baking cupboard stock and over ripened fruit.To make a deeper sponge just make the mixture to 170g/6oz and add an extra egg . You can add any extra additions to this recipe with ease. Chocolate chips, sultanas or toffee pieces all compliment the Banana well.

Ingredients :

140g/5oz Butter
140g/5oz Self Raising Flour
140g/5oz Sugar ( Golden caster sugar is my favourite )
2 Large eggs eggs
3 Over ripe Bananas chopped
3 Dessert spoons local Honey (this is entirely down to taste )

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees

This mixture fits wonderfully in a standard 2lb loaf tin with plenty of room if you wanted to add more to the mixture to make a bigger loaf. You will need to line or butter &flour coat this tin well.

 Cream together the butter and sugar. Whisk the eggs and add to the butter and sugar mixture.
Add most of the chopped Banana , keeping some aside for sprinkling on top. Add the Honey. Sieve the flour into the mixture and give it a good mix!

Pour the batter into the loaf tin and sprinkle the remaining banana on top on the mixture. I also drizzled some extra Honey on top .

Pop in the middle of the preheated oven for around 40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

Enjoy whilst warm with custard , or cold with a cuppa !

Let me know if you give it a go!