Banana Walnut & Date Loaf
Recipe: #19517
June 12, 2015
Categories: Breads, Walnut, Dates, Australian, Baby Shower, Birthday, Picnic, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Quick Breads, Kid's Lunches, Kosher Dairy, more
"Great for the lunch box! This loaf can be topped with extra walnuts before baking. This loaf seems to even be better the next day! Yield 1 loaf"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (125.1 g)
- Calories 385.8
- Total Fat - 12.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.7 g
- Cholesterol - 50.8 mg
- Sodium - 67.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 62.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 6.1 g
- Sugars - 21.2 g
- Protein - 9.2 g
- Calcium - 301.6 mg
- Iron - 20.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 15.3 mg
- Thiamin - 1.6 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to a moderate heat.
Step 2
Grease and line a 20cm x 12cm loaf pan, with baking paper.
Step 3
Beat butter and sugar together until creamy. Add orange zest with one of the eggs and beat until smooth. Add remaining egg and beat to a smooth batter.
Step 4
Fold in the dates, bananas, flour, orange juice and walnuts and fold in well.
Step 5
Spoon the batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for about 45 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
Step 6
Cool loaf in pan for about 5 minutes, then turn out to a rack to cool completely.
Tips
No special items needed.