Description
This is an updated version of an old favorite. Still a wonderful comfort food. Cut a slice and slather with some creamy butter; sit and enjoy with a cup of your favorite cuppa tea!
Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed banana
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons grated fresh orange zest
- 2 teaspoons dried orange peel
- 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ cup chopped bitter chocolate
- 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
- 1 tablespoon coarse sugar for decorating (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 5×9-inch loaf pan and line with parchment paper.
- Beat banana
- sugar
- butter
- and shortening together until smooth; mix in eggs. Stir fresh orange zest
- dried orange peel
- nutmeg
- and vanilla extract into mixture. Gradually stir flour into moist ingredients. Fold chocolate and lavender into batter. Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle coarse sugar crystals over batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean
- about 1 hour.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 9