Banana bread is a brilliant way to use up bananas that are over-ripe (Image: Getty) Mary Berry is the queen of baking, with recipes as simple and accessible as they are delicious. And this banana bread is one of her simplest — it takes just one hour to bake, and all you need to do before hand is weigh and mix a handful of ingredients. And those who have tried it love it, with reviewers on the BBC Good Food website giving it 4.
5 out of five stars and those on the Happy Foodie website giving it full marks and describing it as a "quick and easy" recipe with a "delicious result". Another said it was the "best banana bread I have ever made". Banana bread is a great midweek recipe for lots of reasons.
It can be eaten as a snack or as breakfast, it has the goodness of the bananas in it so you benefit from that (though there is, of course, also a lot of sugar and butter), and because it's homemade it has none of the ultra-processed (UPF) ingredients you will almost inevitably find in shop-bought baked goods. You can read what happened when I gave up ultra-processed foods here . Mary Berry's banana bread — Ingredients To make Mary Berry 's banana bread, you will need a 900g (2lb) loaf tin, with a base measurement of 17x9x9cm.
100g (4oz) butter, softened 175g (6oz) caster sugar Two eggs Two ripe bananas, mashed 225g (8oz) self-raising flour One tsp baking powder Two tbsp milk Mary Berry's banana bread — Method SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways.
