A simple, quick banana bread recipe, sweetened with agave syrup and apricot jam. No sugar is added to this dough, but the cake is moist and indulgent. This makes for a delicious breakfast or a treat at any time of the day. Enjoy this apricot lavender banana bread with a little extra jam, because why not?
Apricot and lavender, those two go amazingly well together. The taste of apricot and the smell of lavender remind me of the French Provence, where immense fields of purple lie in the sun. Aah, I can just smell it. When you make jam, you preserve the taste of summer for darker seasons to come. This recipe uses apricot jam and dried lavender, so you can enjoy those flavours all year round.
Recipe
Ingredients:
- 240 grams whole-wheat flour
- 1 ts baking soda
- ½ ts salt
- 1 ts lavender (plus extra for decoration)
- 2 tbs Pit&Pit Apricot Jam with Agave (plus 4 tbs to finish)
- 75 gram coconut oil (softened if solid)
- 100 grams agave syrup
- 90 grams Greek yoghurt
- 1 ts vanilla extract
- 2 medium eggs
- 275 grams very ripe bananas, mashed (about 2 to 3, depending on size)
- 60 grams walnuts, roughly chopped
You’ll also need: a lined 23×13 cm loaf cake tin (9×5 inches)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F)
- Put the flour, baking soda, salt and 1 ts lavender in a medium-sized mixing bowl and combine well.
- In a large bowl, mix 2 tbs apricot jam, the coconut oil, agave, yoghurt and vanilla extract until blended, then mix in the eggs one by one, then add the mashed bananas and walnuts.
- Add the flour mixture to your wet ingredients, stirring well until fully combined.
- Scrape dough into your lined cake tin. Put 3 tablespoons of apricot jam on top and swirl the jam around with a knife or chopstick to create a marbled effect.
- Bake for 55-65 minutes. Test with a toothpick or skewer. It should come out clean.
- Leave to cool in the baking tin for 20 minutes, then remove from tin and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
- For a nice shiny finish, heat up 1 tbs jam and 2 tbs water in a saucepan, mix and bring to a short boil, then brush the top of the cake with this glaze. Sprinkle on some more lavender if you like, et voilà!
I developed this recipe for Pit&Pit. Recept in het Nederlands? Dat vind je hier: ✨Abrikoos-Lavendel-Bananenbrood ✨ (pit-pit.com)