Bananabrauð

Banana bread

Recently a friend of mine had a question: She had bought a delicious banana bread in a shop in Flúðir, less bread, actually more of a cake, similar to marble or lemon cake, but with banana flavor. She wanted to bake something like this herself, but was still looking for a recipe. The recipes she had found on my blog were too much in the direction of bread and not enough in the direction of cake...

So at the weekend I tried another recipe and baked it together with my grandchild - and the result was this very tasty, very fluffy banana bread, actually much more cake than bread.

I was very happy with the result, but both my grandchild and my youngest offspring were completely thrilled and both tucked in extensively. There was only a tiny piece left.

Ingredients

2 large ripe bananas

50 g melted butter

2 eggs

200 g sugar

200 g flour

50 g milk

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 pinch of ground vanilla

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until fluffy.

Then add flour, baking powder, vanilla and cinnamon and stir.

Puree the bananas thoroughly.

Add the banana puree with the melted butter and milk to the bowl and mix well until you have a nice, uniform dough.

Place the dough in a loaf pan lined with baking paper and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 40 to 50 minutes (test with a toothpick!).

Then let the cake cool down a bit

... and then serve with whipped cream if you like.

[Translated from here.]