Banana bread with cream cheese icing

Today I have a guest helping me. So today’s post is brought to you by my talented niece, Saisha!

I had a surplus of over ripe bananas and decided to make banana bread in the Thermomix, and found a recipe adapted from Donna Hay (thank you Robin!). I added extra bananas just because I didn’t want to waste any, and also more bananas, make the bread even more moist.

Ingredients – banana bread

1. 4 large bananas
2. 125g butter
3. 170g brown sugar
4. 1 tsp vanilla extract
5. 2 eggs
6. 80g maple syrup
7. 255g all purpose flour
8. 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
9. 1 tsp baking powder
10. good pinch of salt
11. 1 tsp ground cinnamon
12. small handful of walnuts, roughly chopped

 Ingredients – cream cheese frosting

1. 100g cream cheese – at room temperature
2. 50g butter – at room temperature
3. 150g icing sugar
4. good pinch of salt
5. 1 tbls milk

Method – banana bread

1. Pre-heat the oven to 160C
2. Blitz bananas on speed 5 for 30 seconds
3. Set them aside in a separate bowl
4. Add the butter, sugar and vanilla to the Thermomix bowl and mix on speed 5 for 3 minutes, scraping the bowl a few times, till light and creamy
5. Add the eggs one at a time and beat them on speed 5 for 10 seconds (each)
6. Add the banana mix with the maple syrup and combine everything on speed 5 for 45 seconds
7. Pour wet mixture into large bowl
8. Add all the dry ingredients and fold together with a spatular.
9. Once all the ingredients are combined, scoop the mixture into a lined baking tin and bake for 90 minutes, or until a skewer/knife is placed in the middle and pulled out clean
10. Allow to cool and ice with cream cheese frosting

Method – cream cheese frosting

1. Blitz cream cheese and butter for 30 seconds, speed 5
2. Add icing sugar and salt and mix for 1 minute, starting speed 3 and gradually up to speed 8 until light and creamy
3. Add milk and mix 30 seconds, speed 5

Enjoy ! Saisha signing off 🙂