Banana Bread

This recipe goes down well every time with Matthew.

• 1 ripe banana
• 3 dessert spoons sunflower oil plus a little for greasing
• 50g golden caster sugar
• 110g plain flour
• 1 level teaspoon baking powder
• 1 egg
• 3 ish rounded dessert spoons of raisins (I also added glaze cherries)
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

First peel the banana and put it into one of the bowls. Use the fork to mash up the banana. Add the sunflower oil. This is now called the 'wet bowl'.

In the other bowl, put the golden caster sugar and mix together with the flour and baking powder to make a 'dry bowl'.

Break the egg in the cup and beat with the fork then add it to the wet bowl. Add the raisins too.

Measure the vanilla extract into the wet bowl. Stir all of the wet ingredients together. Now tip the 'dry bowl' into the 'wet bowl'. Give your mixture a big stir.

Oil a loaf tin with sunflower oil and pour in the mixture. Now put it on a baking tray and into a pre-heated oven at 180ºC fan/ 200ºC/Gas 6 for 30–40 minutes, or until completely cooked through.

Cool and slice

I have frozen this and defrosted it overnight when required and it still tastes good, if not nicer.