Mary Berry reigns supreme in the baking world, her recipes a perfect blend of simplicity and scrumptiousness. Her banana bread has emerged as one of the easiest of her offerings, ready to pop out of the oven in just sixty minutes. All it requires is a quick weigh-in and mix of a few staples before baking.

Those who've had the pleasure of tasting it have been generous with their praise. On BBC Good Food, the recipe has scored an impressive 4.5 stars out of five.

The Happy Foodie's users are equally enamoured, awarding it top marks and highlighting it as a "quick and easy" bake yielding "delicious result". A reviewer was so pleased they declared it the "best banana bread I have ever made", reports the Express . It can be savoured as a quick snack or breakfast, contains all the natural benefits of bananas (though admittedly accompanied by a fair share of sugar and butter), and when you bake it yourself, you sidestep all those ultra-processed ingredients that often lurk in store-bought treats.

' As it happens, I ditched sugar and processed food this year — now I can't live without these three foods . Ingredients: Mary Berry's banana cake To make Mary Berry 's banana bread, you'll need a 900g (2lb) loaf tin, taking the measurements of 17x9x9cm as your guide. 100g (4oz) butter, softened 175g (6oz) caster sugar 2 eggs 2 ripe bananas, mashed 225g (8oz) self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 tbsp milk Method: Mary Berry's banana cake Lightly grease the loaf tin and line it with non.