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blackberry banana bread cut in half on a wooden board
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5 from 4 votes

Blackberry banana bread

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 1 cake
Author: Aleksandra

Ingredients

  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup (7-oz/200g) light brown sugar
  • 1 stick (4-oz/115g) butter
  • 4 medium bananas 14oz/400g - weight without the skins
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 ¼ cups (10oz/280g) flour spooned and leveled
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • big pinch of salt
  • 1.5 cups (7-oz/200g) blackberries
  • 4 oz (115g) dark chocolate

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 °F / 180 °C / Gas Mark 4, no fan.
  • Prepare all the ingredients.
  • Prepare a 9x5-inch loaf pan (23x11cm)* by buttering it and lining with parchment paper.
  • In a small pot melt the butter, take it off the heat and leave to cool.
  • In a small bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together. Set aside.
  • Add the eggs and sugar to a mixing bowl, whisk with a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment on medium-high speed for 5 minutes until the mixture is pale, light and foamy.
  • Add the mashed bananas, vanilla extract, and melted and slightly cooled butter, mix until just combined.
  • Sieve the flour mixture into the batter, stir in with a spatula, until partially combined.
  • Add the chocolate (broken into smaller pieces) and a little over a cup of blackberries, fold in, taking care not to over mix.
  • Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
  • Lay the remaining blackberries on the top.
  • Bake for about 1 hour, or until a cake tester comes out clean. It may run longer or shorter in your oven. After about 50 minutes, check if the top is not browning too much, if it is - cover it loosely with a piece of aluminum foil.
  • Enjoy!

Notes

  • Storage: keeps very well and tastes amazing also the next day. Wrap it tightly in plastic foil or put in a tightly closed container. I keep it at room temperature. Banana bread also freezes very well
  • The best bananas to use here are bananas that are only just beginning to turn spotty and brown (not brown overripe bananas).
  • Another rectangular pan size that would work: 10x30 cm (measured at the top), which is 27x8 cm measured at the bottom.

Nutrition

Calories: 1662kcal