Pro Tips

• Place your loaf in the middle of the oven to avoid the top burning before the rest of it is cooked

• Depending on your oven, you might want to check your loaf earlier than 1 hour as it may be cooked already

 

Ingredients

215g self raising flour

½ tsp baking powder

125g brown sugar

2 bananas

⅓ cup dried cranberries

1 orange, juice and zest

2 eggs

150ml vegetable oil

85g icing sugar, approx

 

How to make it:

Preheat the oven to 180oC/350oF/Gas Mark 4

Grease or line a 900g/2lb (23x13x7cm) loaf tin

Mash bananas with a fork

Zest and juice the orange

Sift flour and baking powder into a large bowl

Mix in sugar, mashed banana and cranberries

In a separate bowl, lightly beat the eggs, add orange juice and oil and stir to combine

Add to the dry ingredients and mix well to combine

Spoon the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and smooth the top

Bake for 1 hour until a skewer inserted comes out clean

Remove from oven and turn onto a wire rack to cool completely

Mix the icing sugar with water until it is fairly runny consistency the drizzle over the top

Sprinkle the orange zest over the top and store in an airtight container in the fridge

 

Makes 1 x 900g/2lb (23x13x7cm) loaf