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Boozy-Banana-BreadThere is a saying that bacon makes everything better. I say, so does booze! You can thank Nigella Lawson as the inspiration behind this bread. It is based on her banana bread recipe that appears in ‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’.

That particular banana bread recipe is one that is made regularly in my kitchen. It is also a fantastic base, which you can tweak and add as you wish. No matter what I seem to do to the original recipe the bread still works out.

Banana-Bread-RecipeAs I added more booze, dark spiced rum, and fruit than her original recipe. Plus I omitted the walnuts, there was a tweak in flour quantity. In all, the bread turned out perfectly, although a little lighter in density than the original recipe.

Best enjoyed thickly sliced and slathered in good quality butter.

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150g dates, de-seeded & chopped
100ml spiced dark rum
200g plain flour
2tsp baking powder
½tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
125g butter
150g caster sugar
2 large eggs
300g mashed ripe banana (approx. 4 small bananas)
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Recipe type: Bread
Ingredients
  • In a small saucepan place dates and rum. Bring to a slow simmer and continue to cook until most of the dates have absorbed most of the rum. It will resemble a boozy date jam. Set aside to cool.
  • Preheat oven 180 deg C (360 deg F). Line and grease an 11cm x 22cm bread tin.
  • In a large bowl place butter and microwave until melted. Remove from microwave and add sugar, beat until blended. Beat in eggs one at a time and then add mashed bananas and date mixture.
  • Sift in flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt. Mix until combined. Pour mix into your bread tin and bake for around 60 minutes until cooked through. Cool on a wire rack. Serve thickly cut slathered with butter.

Banana-and-date-breadDo you have a favourite banana bread recipe?   Would love you to share it below if you do.

Sara xxx

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