Banana & Coconut Loaf

Updated at: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:34:31 GMT

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 160°C regular bake.

Step 2

Grease and flour a loaf tin (about 23cm x 10cm) and line the bottom and sides with baking paper.

Step 3

If you have a food processor, use it to whiz up the bananas, coconut cream or yoghurt, lemon juice and zest.

Step 4

Otherwise mash the bananas up as finely as you can on a plate with a fork or masher.

Step 5

(You want about a cup, or just over, of mash.

Step 6

Stir through the coconut cream or yoghurt, lemon juice and zest.

Step 7

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars until thick and pale, about 5 minutes with an electric beater or 10 minutes by hand.

Step 8

Add the eggs one at a time, beating for a few minutes after each addition.

Step 9

Beat in the vanilla.

Step 10

Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda into a bowl, add the coconut and stir with a whisk to combine evenly.

Step 11

Add to the creamed mixture along with the banana mixture, and fold gently with a spatula until combined evenly, scraping the sides clean.

Step 12

Scrape the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth out.

Step 13

Bake in the lower half of the oven for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until a skewer poked into the middle of the loaf comes out clean (start testing at 1 hour everyone's oven is slightly different).

Step 14

Sprinkle with extra coconut.

Step 15

Serve warm or cold, either by itself or with a good spread of butter - even a little golden syrup if you like.

Step 16

Keeps for a few days in an airtight container, and freezes well too.

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