My Incredibily Popular Banana Bread

• 250 g plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 3 ripe bananas, around 450g
• 125 g butter, softened
• 150 g caster sugar
• 2 large free-range eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 50 g walnuts, chopped

1. Heat oven to 180u0b0C.
2. Lightly butter a 25cm x 10cm loaf tin.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder and slat into a bowl, set aside.
4. Mash the bananas to a puree, set aside.
5. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl, with a hand-held electric beater, until smooth and pale.
6. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well until just combined.
7. Fold in the mashed bananas, vanilla and walnuts, using a spatula.
8. Then lightly fold in the flour.
9. Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin.
10. Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted to the middle comes out dry, covering the top with foil if it starts to brown to quickly.
11. Allow to cool in tin 20 minutes before turning out.
12. Cut into thick slices.

flour, baking powder, salt, bananas, butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, walnuts

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/my-incredibily-popular-banana-bread-177906 (may not work)