Banana & chocolate bread

Banana and chocolate are always a really good combination and are equally as delicious when added to this bread recipe!

Serves: 8-10
Preparation time: 10 minutes.
Cooking time: 1hour 15 minutes.

Nutritional information:
Per portion:

Energy (kcals): 431
Protein: 5.2g
Total fat: 19.8g
polyunsaturated fat: 1.1g
monounsaturated fat: 5.2g
saturated fat: 12.3g
Carbohydrate: 61g
Sugar: 37.5g
Fibre: 1.5g
Calcium: 81mg
Sodium: 256mg

What you need:

• 175g butter
• 250g muscovado sugar, reserve 25g for topping
• 2 medium size eggs, beaten
• 2 medium size bananas
• 100g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
• 300g plain flour
• 2 x 5ml spoons baking powder
• 2 tbsp Alpro soya to Chocolate Milk
• 1 tbsp butter, melted

What you do:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, 375°F, Gas Mark 5. Line the base of 2 x 500g loaf tin with greaseproof paper and grease the sides of the tin.
2. Beat together the butter and sugar, add the eggs and mash in the bananas, until smooth. Stir in the Alpro soya Alternative to Chocolate Milk.
3. Sieve the flour with the baking powder and fold into the mixture. Pour into the loaf tin and smooth over the surface with a palette knife.
4. Bake in the oven for 1 hour 15 minutes. Test if a cake is cooked by inserting along thin skewer into the centre of the cake. If the skewer comes out clean with no mixture on it, the cake is ready. Leave in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out on to a cooling rack.

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