Banana Breakfast Bread

The power of social media is amazing - I was asked for a banana bread recipe and then together we enhanced it.

100g oats

200g wholemeal flour

100g brown sugar

1 tsp mixed spice

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

70ml oil not olive -light vegetable oil

2 eggs beaten

Zest of an orange

3-4 bananas , reserve half one in slices and mash the rest well

Optional variations ;- Add some desiccated coconut and vanilla extract

Oven at 180C / 160C fan

Grease or line a loaf tin

Mix the dry ingredients together

Make a well and add the eggs, zest , oil and mix well

Mix in the mashed banana

Press the reserved slices into the top

Scrape into the tin and bake for 50-65 minutes until done

Cool for 5 minutes then take out of the tin and cool on a wire wrack