Banana bread

Makes 1 loaf

Banana bread is perfect for a lunch-box snack for the kids.

Ingredients:

• 5 tbsp (75 ml) sunflower oil
• ½ cup (125 ml) sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla essence
• 4 ripe bananas, mashed
• ½ tsp (2,5 ml) bicarbonate of soda
• ¾ cup (180 ml) lukewarm low-fat or fat-free milk
• 1½ cups (375 ml) cake flour
• ½ cup (125 ml) wholewheat flour
• ½ tsp (2,5 ml) baking powder

Process:

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C. Lightly grease a 1,5 litre bread tin.
2. Beat oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla and stir in bananas. 
3. Dissolve bicarb in milk and stir into egg mixture.
4. Place dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir in the egg mixture.
5. Spoon batter into the bread tin. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool on a cooling rack.