Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp mixed spice
120g butter
melted and cooled
2 eggs
lightly beaten
¼ cup orange juice
1 tsp vanilla extract or essence
1¼ cups bananas
mashed
1 x 400g tin pie apples
chopped
Allergy Advice
Contains Dairy
Contains Eggs
Contains Gluten
Equipment
- 1 loaf tin
- 1 baking paper
- 1 large bowl
- 1 medium bowl
- 1 skewer
- 1 wire rack
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C /160° fan-forced. Line a loaf tin with baking paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and mixed spice.
- In a medium bowl, combine the butter, eggs, orange juice, vanilla, bananas and pie apples.
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and fold until all ingredients are just moist.
- Pour into prepared loaf pan and cook for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the pan for 20 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to further cool.
Notes
Tip
Ripe bananas have a much better flavour for cakes and breads; the sugar content is lessened and the flavour is better.
Variation
You can cook your own apples if you like, but I used pie apples for convenience.
Variation
If you like it really spicy, you can double the cinnamon and mixed spice in this recipe.
