This recipe has a little bit of all my favourite baking ingredients – bananas, dates, cherries and walnuts all baked together in to one delicious loaf. It’s too good not to share!
I love baking with bananas and if you’re bananas about bananas, you might want to check out some of my banana bread recipes. Some of my favourites include this Banana Cinnamon Loaf, this Spiced Banana Bread and this Nutella Banana Bread. My recipes are a reflection of my life, sometimes they’re carefully planned and well thought out and other times, they happen because I fly by the seat of my pants, and this recipe definitely falls into the latter category.
Now some people might say I’m tight, but I like to think of myself as thrifty because I hate wasting food. So when I had a few dates, a few nuts and a few cherries left after my frenzied festive baking and a few sad looking bananas in the fruit bowl, I knew I had to bake them altogether.
This bake is a real hybrid, it’s still got a lovely light banana flavour, but a wonderfully light texture, it’s definitely more cake like than a regular banana bread. The dates give the loaf some colour, the nuts some crunch and those cherries a lovely bit of chew. Altogether, it’s a lovely little loaf and even better with a bit of butter, isn’t everything" Just a word of warning though, if you want to differentiate your chunks of date from your chunks of cherry, leave your cherries whole. As you ca...