Vegan Banana Bread

Ingredients

Is it a bread or is it a cake? Who cares! Banana bread is darn tasty and given that it saves you from throwing out bananas that are past their best, it’s also environmentally sound too. Although some banana bread recipes out there include butter or even eggs, there is really no reason you can’t make a 100% vegan version that is just as tasty.

And, not only is it tasty, it is remarkably simple too and it’s a great recipe to make with the kids to get them into baking and to show them – and anyone else who samples the end product – that vegan cakes (or bread!) can be just as tasty as their non-vegan counterparts.

• 4-5 medium overripe bananas (black patches on the skin are fine, but don’t wait so long that the fruit gets mouldy!)
• 100ml sunflower oil
• 150g soft brown sugar
• 300g self-raising flour*
• 1 tsp baking powder*
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• Vegan butter/margarine for greasing tin
• 50g chopped walnuts**
• 50g dried fruit**

Method