Add an egg and 150g of self raising flour to the sugar butter mixture and beat then repeat and add another egg and 150g of self raising flour
Then add 80g of walnuts or sultanas (or both!) roughly chopped and stir through
To finish add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to keep the cake moist and stir through
Line a loaf tin with grease proof paper and add the wet mixture
Place in a preheated oven on 190c for 40 – 50 minutes depending on how temperamental the oven is then take out of the oven and leave in the tin on a rack to cool down for 20 minutes.
DONE!
Try it over the weekend and let us know how you get on, or if you’ve any other suggestions on how to use up those bananas before they’re past their best drop us a comment below. . .
Just a glimpse of one of those ‘You don’t have to be crazy to work here.. but it helps’ notices is normally enough to send a shiver down my spine. Today however, everyone at Ethical Superstore was ‘going bananas’.
The reason – we’re taking part in a bona fide world record attempt organised by the Fairtrade Foundation which hopefully will raise awareness of Fairtrade and the benefits it delivers to third world producers.
We don’t need too much encouragement to find an entertaining or unconventional twist to proceeding so we thought we’d share with you some video of one of our banana eating escapades. We made a banana ice cream – using a prospective new product – a people powered ice cream maker.
Despite it’s hamster ball styling this is a product that definitely puts the fun into functional, and the resulting ice cream was very cool in both senses of the word.
In the run up to Go Banana’s For Fairtrade day, which is tomorrow (6th March), we here at Ethical Superstore have been racking our brains to come up with the most creative, entertaining, bizarre, and thought provoking banana-based activities!
Late last week we had a trial run of our banana-eating-a-thon, a few more games and events are in the Top Secret pipeline, and over the past couple of days we’ve been trying to get rid of a Fairtrade banana by offering it to passersby.
Let me explain; we tied a Fairtrade banana to a tree outside our offices so that it was hanging above the footpath within arm’s reach of any pedestrian, with a note attached saying “Please eat me, I’m safe & Fairtrade too!” in a hope of raising awareness of Fairtrade.
BarryNana has received a few funny looks, been ignored, been pointed at, but not once has anyone attempted to free him from his state of limbo and indulge in some Fairtrade goodness.
This got us wondering why people seem to be so adverse to freebies, why people seem to ignore what they don’t think is really there, and why people’s confusion or apathy leads to inaction or inertia.
A banana-based frenzy broke out at Ethical Superstore this lunchtime. As part of the Fairtrade Foundation’s Fairtrade Fortnight celebrations, we’re in training for the world’s biggest Fairtrade banana-eating record attempt.
Ethical Superstore Teams Go Bananas!
You can join in too; all you have to do is eat a Fairtrade banana any time between noon on Friday 6 March and noon Saturday 7 March.
We’re signed up as one of a whole host of events across the UK – check out the map on the Go Bananas! site to find your local event or submit your own; whether it’s just the family munching a banana each at home, or a whole office involved with banana-themed games – there’s sure to be something you can get involved with.
To keep you informed and entertained throughout your banana-eating check out these banana facts and figures;
The banana is the most popular fruit in the world – people spend over £10 billion a year on the fruit globally.
Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem.
Wild bananas have been cultivated for more than 4,000 years.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant.
Bananas are harvested every day of the year.
The word banana is derivated from the Arabic meaning ‘finger’.
Eating two bananas provides enough energy to see you through a strenuous 90-minute gym workout.
There are 57 certified producer groups in ten countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa supplying Fairtrade bananas to twenty countries in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Fairtrade bananas were launched in 1994, and now one in four bananas sold in the UK is Fairtrade.
Bananas contain tryptophan and vitamin B6, known to help make you feel happy
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