Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Icing

I feel like I could pick my mum's banana bread out of a lineup, but I couldn’t tell you why. It’s one of those things we’ve all watched someone make, everyone with their own tweak or special addition. I piped the icing on because I felt like being fancy, but you can just lather it on thick with a spatula, or you can be fancy too.

Serves: 8-10 portions Prep Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Banana Bread

- 2 overripe bananas

- 170g butter (soft)

- 170g caster sugar

- 1/4 tsp vanilla

- 170g self-raising flour

- 1/2 tsp cinnamon

(Pour into lined bread tin. Bake at 180 for 50 mins. After cooling, get ready to ice)

Cream cheese icing:

- 90g cream cheese (room temp)

- 110g butter (soft)

- 1/2 tsp vanilla

- 240g icing sugar

(Combine until soft and worked together)

Method:

1. In a mixing bowl, combine bananas, butter, sugar and vanilla and mix well.

2. Add self-raising flour and cinnamon and mix until all flour is incorporated

3. Pour into a lined bread tin.

4. Bake at 180 degrees for 50 minutes or until a knife comes out clean

5. Set to cool before icing.

6. Combine all icing ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

7. Pipe on or lather with a spatula.