So I had a fruit bowl full of bananas….and a jar of Nutella staring me in the face… what better to do, then combine them into the ultimate NUTELLA SWIRLED BANANA BREAD (I feel like this banana bread deserves capital letters).
I recently made the best ever brown butter chocolate chip cookies stuffed with Nutella, and am seriously on board the Nutella baking bandwagon… a few google searches would reveal that I’m not the first one to dream up such an amazing banana bread!!
I used this recipe from Zoe Bakes. It was so darn good, half the loaf was gone in minutes!! The recipe makes two loaves, but you can halve the recipe if you don’t trust yourself to have two of these in the house.
Ingredients:
Makes 2 loaves
- 3 large or 4 medium (2 cups mashed) bananas, yellow with brown speckles
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 250 grams unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups self raising flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 cup Nutella
Method:
- Pre-heat over to 180 degrees Celsius
- Grease two loaf tins and line with baking paper
- Mash the bananas with a potato masher, so they still have some small lumps, set aside.
- Combine the sugar, butter, milk, eggs and vanilla and mix with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer. Whisk together the flour and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the sugar/butter mixture, just until smooth. Add the bananas and mix just until they are combined.
- THEN COMES THE MAGIC – microwave your nutella for about 20 seconds until soft (or you can stand the jar in hot water).
- Drizzle about two thirds of the Nutella over the mix, and gently fold it through, being careful not to stir too much, as you want to retain a marbled effect.
- Pour the mixture into your loaf tins
- Drizzle the remaining Nutella over the top of the banana bread.
- Bake for 45 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean
Pure deliciousness!!! Serve with…more Nutella!!!
Do you have any Nutella recipes you would like to share? Are you on the Nutella Bandwagon?