Pear & Plum Banana Bread
A quick and easy extra fruit banana bread recipe for the family (or your co-workers!) to enjoy. You can also use apples, or blueberries as one of the layers.
Ingredients
- 150 g unsalted butter plus a bit extra for greasing
- 100 g soft brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 g self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon plus extra for dusting
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 bananas mashed
- 120 g sour cream
- 1 pear ripe, sliced
- 2 plums ripe, stone removed, sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160 fan/gas 5. Grease the inside of a loaf tin with a little butter and line with a sheet of baking paper.
- Using an electric whisk, beat the butter with the sugar, eggs and vanilla.
- Sift in the dry ingredients and stir with a metal spoon. Stir in the mashed bananas and sour cream.
- Add one third of the mixture to the loaf tin and spread out using the back of a spoon. Next, add a layer of pear. Then a further third of the mixture followed by a layer of plum. Add the rest of the mixture and flatten the top. Dust with a little extra cinnamon.
- Bake the loaf for 1 hour. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for ten minutes before carefully taking it out to cool on a wire rack. Serve when warm or cold with extra fruit on the side. .