Delicious Banana bread that tastes like cupcake!

Hi There!

Most of the banana breads you might have eaten, will usually be dense, filling and too sugary. Unless you are eating in a fancy cafe that adds a lot of additives apart from bananas to get the fluffy texture. But I chanced upon a great recipe recently and made a lot of variations to it get banana bread that tastes like cupcake. Light, fluffy, spongy and delicious are the only few words to describe it.

Here is the recipe.

2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 tbsp yogurt
1 1/4 cup mashed or pureed banana (3 medium)
1/2-1 cup mixed nuts(walnuts, almonds)

1) Preheat oven to 175 deg Celsius. Line a bread loaf pan 8''*3'' with parchment paper and keep aside.

2)In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

3)In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, adding them one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract and the yogurt.

4)Stir half of the flour mixture into the butter mixture, followed by the mashed banana. Stir in remaining flour mixture, mixing until everything is just combined and no streaks of dry ingredients remain.

5)Add the mixed nuts and fold in.

6) Bake for 40min, until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean and the top springs back when lightly pressed.

7)Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

Do try and let me know how it goes.