Banana Bread with coconut oil (and a coconut oil body scrub)

I've got loads of bananas that need eating up, see...

We ate a couple on our breakfast this morning. Then I remembered I had a healthy banana bread recipe in a book somewhere and when I found it, it's using wholemeal self raising flour, 1st stumble, also has natural yogurt in the recipe, none of that either, or any poppy seeds. So this is my own version of a healthy(ish) banana bread made with coconut oil and other things I had in the house!

You will need:

80g Natural Molasses Sugar

1 Egg

200g of Greek yogurt with honey

2tbsp Coconut oil

2 ripe Bananas mashed

40g Sultanas

100g Plain flour

50g Porridge oats

1/2tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

1tsp Baking Powder

1tsp Ground Cinnamon

1tsp Ground Nutmeg

Preheat oven to 160o/325oF/Gas 3

Put sugar, egg, yogurt and oil in a large bowl and whisk together well. By the way, I didn't melt the coconut oil beforehand and it whipped together just fine.

Ro came into the kitchen at this point and wanted to help.

Stir in the bananas and sultanas.

Add everything else, and fold gently with a metal spoon (a 3 year old's version of gently).

Spoon the mixture into prepared loaf tin (grease and line it cos it's sticky). 

Now, here's the tricky part, the recipe says 50 minutes, but of course it's a completely different recipe, so I bet it had about 2 hours altogether, yes really! We got the hama beads out, then played with play doh, then went for a ride on the bike to school to drop off M's lunch bag and fed the ducks, and even when I switched the oven off, I left it in the oven just to be sure! Anyway, here is the finished article, I would say it tastes a little bit like malt loaf, it's nice anyway. Maybe didn't need as much yogurt (one pot would have done it) and then it wouldn't have taken so long to cook. Ta-dah...

PS. Scared the kids in the shower tonight, you know I love all things coconut oil? Well I tried out a home made body scrub tonight, using about 1/2 tbsp coconut oil and the contents of this morning's cafetiere! I know it's taking re-cycling to the extreme, but it worked and it smells lush, coconut ground coffee. I bet I looked a sight...Nx