Banana Bread

Yesterday afternoon I made Banana Bread, to have a snack to bring with me to work today...and because I had four very ripe bananas lying on the countertop. It was either to use them in a Banana Bread or to throw them away... Well, Banana Bread it was...!

Banana Bread
(makes 1 loaf)

Ingredients:

170 gr all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
115 gr butter, melted
100 gr sugar
2 eggs
4 very ripe bananas, mashed
75 gr raisins
50 gr hazelnuts or walnuts
1 tsp vanilla essence

1.) Preheat the oven to 165 degrees Celsius.
2.) Put the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium-sized bowl and mix well.
3.) In another bowl mix the melted butter and the sugar until blended. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
4.) Mash the bananas and add to the butter/sugar mixture.
5.) Stir in the raisins, nuts and the vanilla essence.
6.) Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir well.
7.) Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and scrape the dough into the loaf pan.
8.) Bake in the middle of the oven for approximately 1 hour (check with a toothpick or skewer whether the loaf is ready; the skewer should come out clean).
9.) Leave the loaf in the pan and put on a rack to cool.

Enjoy!