Banana Cashew Bread
Serves: 5
A delicious cakey loaf, packed with nutty goodness - this is a real crowd pleaser and easy to make!
Ingredients:
100ml nut oil
2 ripe bananas, mashed
150ml natural yoghurt
3 medium free-range eggs
50g Meridian smooth cashew butter
225g unrefined demerara sugar
225g self-raising flour
100g raisins
50g cashew nuts, chopped
additional 20g Meridian smooth cashew butter for topping
method:
- Grease and line a 900g loaf tin and pre-heat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3.
- Beat together the oil, banana, yogurt, eggs and cashew butter. In a separate bowl combine the sugar, flour, raisins and cashews.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until it's well combined.
- Tip the the mixture into the prepared tin. Melt the additional 20g of cashew butter in the microwave or on the hob until just runny. Drizzle it over the cake mix and swirl with the tip of a knife or a skewer.
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 1 hour 20 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then turn out and allow to cool completely before cutting.
