Apricot-banana-cranberry teabread

This addition to my teabread recipe collection comes from a book I bought in a charity shop called 'The complete book of baking'. It really is a very quick bread to make, and is very moist. Another recipe with oil instead of butter must be good!

175g plain flour
11/2 tspn baking powder
1/2tspn grated nutmeg
6-g rolled oats
250g light brown sugar
60g dried cranberries
60g dried apricots
2 eggs
120ml sunflower oil
1 tspn vanilla essence
2 ripe bananas, mashed

Preheat oven 180C/gas 4
Grease a 900g loaf tin

Put flour, baking powder and nutmeg in a bowl and add the oats, sugar and dried fruit. Mix together till blended. make a well in the middle.
In another bowl beat the bananas, eggs, oil and vanilla essence together with an electric mixer.
Add this to the flour mixture and combine together.
Pour into the tin and bake for 45mins- an hour till well risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack.
Dust the top with icing sugar if you want.


I served this to friends with a compote of cranberries and apricots, which really accentuated the flavours in the teabread. Have the compote recipe if anyone wants it.
There's an awful lot of sugar in the recipe so I'm going to play around with using something else for sweetness, and also going to try just reducing the amount of sugar and see if the recipe still works. I love the combination of flavours.

Comments

Hello said…
Another beautiful bake. What wonderful ingredients apricot, banana and cranberry.
Snowy said…
Thank you Miss Flash.
Cranberries and apricots are a fine combination - this does sound good.
A lovely sounding combination. Makes a change form my boring old banana only bread.
Choclette said…
This sounds really interesting. You don't get oats in cakes very often. It must have given it an nice chewy texture. I quite often reduce the amount of sugar in recipes as I don't generally like them too sweet - not unless they are meant to be really sweet like a brownie and then for some reason I don't mind!

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