Walnut banana bread

This walnut banana bread is incredibly moist, full of banana flavour, and loaded with walnuts and topped with cinnamon oat crumble.  Perhaps you may like it for breakfast, an afternoon snack or as dessert with a scoop of ice cream. Here is our recipe to make your very own mouth-watering banana bread!

Ingredients

2 large very ripe bananas, mashed (plus one extra sliced in half for topping)

1/3 cup melted coconut oil

1/2 cup Lyles Golden Syrup

1/2 cup rolled oats (plus extra for topping)

1 3/4 cup wholemeal spelt flour

2 eggs

1/2 cup walnuts

1/4 cup milk of choice

2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

Topping (optional )

1 spoon of oats

1 spoon of cinnamon

1 spoon of coconut oil

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 160 C (fan).

2. In a bowl combine Golden Syrup and oil with a whisk. Add eggs, milk and bananas then add all remaining ingredients and combine well.

3. Pour batter into a baking paper-lined loaf pan, then top with extra banana and oats crumble mixture.

4. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean (depends on your loaf tin size).

5. Cool in a tin for 15 minutes then turn out onto a cooling rack until it's cool enough to be easily handled.

Slice, wrap and freeze! Or enjoy right away!

Words by Christine Barnett

Photography by Jelena Fairweather