Banana Loaf Recipe

I'm one of those girls who wants to have her cake and eat it.  I certainly do not want it to get in the way of me losing weight though so am going to try and then share some 'healthy' recipes with you.  As this one is mostly banana I figure it must also count for one of your five a day...

Makes 14 Slices
201 calories per slice

Ingredients
50g butter
175g light brown soft sugar
2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
350g peeled ripe bananas, mashed
200g self-raising flour sifted
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
75g walnuts, roughly chopped
6 walnuts halves

Preheat the oven to 180°C / Fan 160°C

Line and grease a 1kg loaf tin

Cream the butter and the sugar in a large mixing bowl until the mixture is light and fluffy

Add the beaten eggs and gradually whisk them into the butter and sugar

Add the mashed bananas and beat the mixture well

Carefully fold in the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda

Stir in the walnuts

Put the cake mixture into the prepared loaf tin and decorate with the walnut halves pressing them gently into the mixture

Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minute until the cake has risen and is golden.

Allow to cool

Eat without a trace of guilt :)

Unfortunately my boyfriend is allergic to walnuts so I made mine without.  The nutritional info per slice without the nuts works out as follows, based on 14 slices:

155 Calories, 3.85g fat of which 2.2g are saturates (3 points on 'old' weightwatchers, 4 on Pro points)

AMAZING!!  And the best bit is it doesn't taste remotely like 'diet food'

Little tip - to make sure i just get a measured slice and not a 'Sarah slice' I measure the cake and mark out the portion size using an edible food pen.  A bit OCD maybe but it makes sure I am not kidding myself that I am only having one portion when I have in fact eaten half the cake...