Banana Bread

16th January, 2015

A bit of baking next! This recipe is taken from Crumb. First I had to purchase a larger loaf tin - a 1lb tin is hardly going to make for a nice big cake.

The recipe was actually quite simple. Cream the butter and sugar (I opted to use caster sugar instead of agave nectar to keep things simple and costs low), add the eggs, rum and mashed banana and a bit of the flour. I used my food mixer to make sure the mixture was smooth and then added in the remaining flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and seeds from cardamom pods. I completely missed this in the recipe the first time I read it and it was lucky I had cardamom pods in the cupboard at all! And I always love an excuse to get out the heavy granite pestle and mortar to grind those seeds. This all mixed together to make a smooth batter which was poured into the loaf tin.

Here I actually nipped away for a bath rather than making the glaze straight away! But I had a spare egg yolk from making the mayonnaise a few days earlier which meant I could make a stiff icing that would set pretty quickly regardless of how long it was left. I didn't, however, check how much icing sugar I had left so it was probably a bit thin on the ground. Or the cake, as the case may be. Who cares, it tasted delicious!