Hazelnut Nutella Swirled Banana Bread

Recipe from In Sock Monkey Slippers

Nutella Swirled Banana Bread

Ingredients:

4 ripe bananas, mashed

½ cup granulated sugar

½ cup brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

1tsp vanilla extract

1tsp bicarbonate of soda

¼ tsp salt

½ cup hazelnuts, chopped

1 ½ cups plain flour, sifted

4tbsp nutella

Method:

1. Grease and line a loaf pan. Preheat the oven to 180◦C/350F/mark 4.

2. Mix together the bananas, butter, sugars, egg and vanilla. Add the bicarbonate of soda, salt and hazelnuts and stir to combine. Fold in the flour until just combined. Pour into the prepared pan.

3. Add the nutella, in blobs, to the top of the batter down the centre. Run a knife through the nutella to swirl it into the batter.

4. Bake for an hour, or until a toothpick poked into the centre of the bread comes away clean. Cool on a wire rack before removing from the pan and serving.