Old-fashioned Banana Bread

We secretly brought back some young banana shoots from Straddie when Rene and Cerae had their wedding about 2 and a half years ago. A lot of people on the foot ferry were giving us a suspicious look but we didn't care.


So, now, we've finally got our first bunch of bananas!


The rain from last year and early this year certainly helped those trees get much much bigger. Now Ben has to knock down used trees after we enjoy these bananas - I didn't even know bananas only produce the fruit once!



Anyway, I've been busy baking lots of banana bread and banana smoothies. It looks like we'll have a bit of break from the banana heaven until we get the next bunch (we can't see it yet)!

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Old-fashioned Banana Bread

125g butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons honey
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk or yoghurt (I used the great yoghurt from Cerae!)
2 cups of self-raising flour, shifted
4 bananas (if using lady finger bananas, use about 6.), mashed
1/2 cup sultanas or walnuts (optional)


1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line the loaf tin with baking paper.

2. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs and mix well.

3. Fold in half of the flour and the bananas. Repeat the process without overmixing the dough.

4. Fold in the milk and sultanas or walnuts.

5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake it for about 40 mins.

Easy Lamington

My friend Jodie gave me an opportunity to make these on Australia Day this year!
I used this recipe from the net which was quite helpful.

Although had never made them before, they were quite easy and fun to make:) The only problem was all the mess I created with the coconut and chocolate icing!