250g butter
6 bananas (as ripe as possible)
4 eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
3 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup dessicated coconut
2 cups sugar
Preheat oven to 160degC.
Grease and line two loaf tins (10cm by 25cm).
Put all dry ingredients in a big bowl.
Soften butter in a pot, add the mashed banana and continue to melt butter.
Beat eggs one at a time into the slightly cooled banana mixture.
Add the wet mix to the dry ingredients and combine gently.
Pour into the prepared loaf tins.
Bake for about 50-55min or until a skewer comes out clean.
Serve warm with butter.
This recipe comes from Vudu in Queenstown. It was requested by Cherelle Gibson of Clyde. If you have enjoyed a dish in an Otago cafe or restaurant and would like the recipe, write to Ask a Chef, Features, Otago Daily Times, PO Box 181, Dunedin, or email odt.features@odt.co.nz, including your name, address and a daytime telephone number, and we will request it.
