Easy Vegan Banana Bread

This is great one for when you find those bananas at the bottom of your fruit bowl going all black and squishy and it's personally one of my favorite types of cake. Not only is it moist and tasty but it is also really easy to make vegan without compromising the taste.

Now this is something I was unsure of before writing this, someone told me Bananas didn't grow on trees! However I always presumed they did. In fact the banana is the fruit of a herbaceous flowering plant. They are often mistaken for trees, as I have always done, but the stem (what I always mistook for its trunk!) actually dies every year after fruiting.

So really I shouldn't be writing about Banana's as they are not actually a tree ingredient, however I think it is worth doing in order to share this information and they just make really great cakes too!

The photograph shows Luc Doho with his banana tree on a TREE AID project in Mali.

This recipe was inspired and slightly modified from its original form from a website called recipes for vegans.

This recipe has two tree ingredients; apple and cinnamon (and of course the banana - which I'm not counting).

Ingredients

400g self raising flour
100g dairy free margarine
200g sultanas
2 large very ripe bananas, mashed
2 tspn Cinnamon
250ml soya milk
2 tspn cider vinegar

Directions

• Preheat the oven to gas mark 7.
  
• Combine the flour, cinnamon and margarine in a bowl and mix together with your fingers until it has a breadcrumb like consistency.
  
• Wash the sultanas in hot water to rehydrate them. Drain and allow to cool and then add to the mix.
  
• Add banana and stir.
  
• Mix the Apple Cider vinegar in with the soya milk before hand and then slowly add the soya milk 100ml at a time until you have a fairly runny mixture that is still sticking together.
  
• Put into a bread tin that has been greased and put in the hot oven for 20 minutes. To see if it is cooked all the way through, poke with a knife or skewer, if it comes out clean its done.
  
• Once cool slice up and spread with margarine.

Emma’s Tip: The apple cider vinegar and soya milk mixture works as a great substitute for eggs, and also try adding a little sugar to this recipe if you have a sweeter tooth!