Banana bread

Cheap and easy, low-fat and low-sugar -- yet extremely moreish! This banana cake is almost too good to be true.

You need:

- 225g Plain flour (or use Self-raising flour and reduce the Baking powder to 2 heaped tsp)

- 3 heaped tsp Baking powder

- 100g Brown sugar

- 1 tsp Cinnamon

- 3 large Black bananas, mashed

- 75g Vegetable or Sunflower oil (weight)

- 50g Dried fruit or nuts (optional)

Recipe:

- Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees Celcius.

- Mash the peeled bananas with a fork. Mix well with oil and sugar.

- Add the flour, baking powder and cinnamon, and combine well.

- Add any additional ingredients.

- Baked in a greased and lined 2lb loaf tin for 20 minutes, before checking. Cover with foil, if the loaf cake is browning. Bake for another 40 minutes (approximately).

- Allow to cool a little before slicing. It's delicious freshly baked but even yummier when it goes gooey the next day