I hope you are doing well in this bizarre and impactful period, in which everybody still has to find his or her way of life in this pandemic outbreak. I have been isolating myself for weeks. I work from home, do my necessary errands every 4-5 days, cook daily three meals, sometimes taking some fresh air and spend lots of time with my savior mister Netflix.
To kill my isolation time with more fun, I baked a delicious walnut banana bread for my tea breaks. Shopping was not required as I had all the ingredients at home. So let’s have some Fika-Time if you are up for baking.
Baking time approx. 1hrs and serves 6-8 slices.
Tools & Ingredients
- 1 sheet baking paper
- 3 bowls (large, medium and small)
- 1 cake dish ~28cm
- Whisk (electrical or manual will do fine as well)
- Wooden chopstick or long bamboo pick
- 200 gram all purpose flower
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 115 gram unsalted soft butter (or melt the butter)
- 110 gram brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla powder or pure vanilla extract
- 4 (half) ripe bananas
- ¾ coffee cup crushed unsalted walnuts
What to do?
- Cover the bottom of your baking dish with the baking paper and along sides.
- Pre-heat oven on fan grill function at 175°C.
- Whisk 200gr flower + ½ tsp baking soda + ½ tsp baking powder all together in a bowl.
- Whisk in a separate big bowl 115gr 110gr melted butter + sugar until well blended.
- Add 2 eggs + 1Tbsp vegetable oil + tsp vanilla powder into the butter/sugar bowl and whisk until well blended.
- Mash all 4 bananas fine with a fork and mix into the egg mixture.
- Add the flower mix to the egg mixture by intervals and stir it until well blended.
- Mix ½ cup walnuts to the mixture.
- Pour the batter and flatten the mixture into the cake dish.
- Spread remaining walnuts on top of cake dish.
- Put the dish in the middle oven section on fan grill function at 175°C for 45 min.
- Prick the wooden pick into the center of the bread and see if it comes out dry. If wood comes out sticky and moisty, then bake the cake a bit extra longer and check again after 10-15min.
Finally: let the bread cool down for 15-20min outside the oven before serving for tea.
Enjoy your Fika-Time ☕️
