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Tuesday 16 June 2009

White Chocolate, Strawberry, Banana Bread


I am eager for further blue skies and sunny days, fluttering carelessly along balmy breezes, butterflies showing off their magnificent colours in my garden attracted by a buddleia shrub. To me this suggests summertime where P.Y.O. (pick your own) strawberries are literally in abundance just down the road from me. I love to incorporate strawberries in bakes and desserts as much as possible, not forgetting a good few jars of strawberry conserve. P.Y.O. strawberries are just perfect for this and one or two may just slip into my mouth just to taste for ripeness, you understand! *Giggle*



This leads me onto my recent bake that I can’t wait to share with you! I’ve had this idea for a while now to include white chocolate and strawberries in banana bread. You can imagine just how moist the crumb is from the mashed banana and speckled throughout with white chocolate and slices of strawberries. For me it is perfect served just as it is, on the other hand, take it to another level for that utter luxuriousness and serve a slice spread with strawberry conserve, softly whipped cream and a few sliced strawberries dusted over with icing sugar.



White Chocolate, Strawberry, Banana Bread

Serves 10 -12

Ingredients
275g (10 oz) plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
100g (4 oz) brown sugar
100g (4 oz) caster sugar
100g (4 oz) butter, softened
2 eggs
120 ml (approx 4½ fl oz) sour cream
½ tsp vanilla extract
3 medium bananas, peeled and mashed
150g (5 oz) ripe strawberries, hulled and chopped
100g (4 oz) white chocolate chunks or chips

You will need 13cm x 23cm (5in x 9in) loaf tin, lightly buttered and lined with parchment paper.

Method


Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4. Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder together in a large bowl. Add both sugars and the softened butter, using your finger tips rub the butter in until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. In another large bowl, whisk the eggs, sour cream, and vanilla extract together. Add the mashed bananas, chopped strawberries and white chocolate chunks. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet mixture. Gently but thoroughly bring all the ingredients together with a wooden spoon, and then pour into the prepared loaf tin. Smooth the top, and bake in the preheated oven for 1 -1¼ hours or until a skewer interested into the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.



Do I have you salivating at the prospect of dipping your fork into a slice of sweet nectar? Don’t just take my word for just how good this tastes; this is a definite bake that needs to be recreated, sliced and eaten as you drift away on a cloud to nirvana!

55 comments:

Debbie said...

What a great idea to have strawberries in banana bread. I love banana bread and I'm always looking for a new recipe. I seem to have tons of aging bananas around my house......

Hornsfan said...

Rosie this looks like a terrific twist on banana bread!

Laura Schaefer said...

This looks incredibly delicious. I love your blog; great pics!

Rose said...

Yum! This bread looks so delicious! I love strawberries, you are lucky to have a 'pick your own strawberries' so close to your home.

Rose

Sanghi said...

Chocolate cake with yummy home picked berries... dear lucky! Yummy cake!!

Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

What a scrumptious looking bread! Great combo, mmmhhh!

Cheers,

Rosa

natalia said...

Ciao Rosie ! This bread is really wonderful !I wish there were PYO fielsd around me too !

Uma said...

Bread looks superb Rosie! Wish I could get a piece :)

Priya Suresh said...

Drooling rite now here, wat a delicious combo..bread looks fabulous!

Finla said...

That is what i call a sinfully delicous combination rosire.

Christy said...

Oooo-two of my favorite fruits combined w/ white chocolate in a bread that I could eat for breakfast....sounds heavenly!! Rosie, this looks absolutely delightful!!

Donna said...

These look DELICIOUS!!!! Happy night sweetie!!hughugs

Deborah said...

I just picked our first strawberries from the garden yesterday! This looks so delicious!

Bunny said...

Rosie this looks wonderful! I love to make desserts with the fruit in season. I think white chocolate is so elegant. Great recipe!

Heather said...

I'll have a slice with cream, please! What a lovely summer fruit bread.

Sara said...

This looks so delicious, I am going to use my strawberries from the garden to make it!

Jerri at Simply Sweet Home said...

How wonderful! I'd love to try this!

Katie said...

Yum that looks so good. I have never thought of putting strawbs in banana bread before - but love the idea. I'm jealous you have a P.Y.O so close to you, I intend to do some myself this year but the nearest one is miles away!

The Caked Crusader said...

Strawberries and white chocolate - only one way to describe that combination: yum!

♥Rosie♥ said...

Thank you for all your kind words and for taking the time to call by. Yes, I am very fortunate enough to live where local grown produce is available from farm shops.

I hope you will try out this recipe sometime it really is a lovely combo of flavours.

Best wishes Rosie xoxo

Anne said...

Looks and sounds fab Rosie! And yes, one does have to test them for ripeness at the PYO! ;-)

x

Aparna Balasubramanian said...

Thewhite chocolate bit sounds the best. :)

I've made starwberry muffins and they're good. So this bread must be lovely and moist. Looks very good, Rosie.

nora@ffr said...

yummm!! vat a great combo with strawberry and banana.. sound addictive :)
cheers!!

♥Rosie♥ said...

Hi Anne, the strawberries always seem to taste better when a few are slipped in whist P.Y.O. *giggle*

Hi Aparna, I’m sure I recall your gorgeous strawberry muffins on your blog - mmmmmmmmm - scummy:0)

Thanks Nora :0)

Best wishes to you my 'dear' friends and thanks for calling by -Rosie xoxox

lubnakarim06 said...

Oh wow looks drool worthy...love that combo of fruits in bread...yum...

♥Rosie♥ said...

Hi K.F. how are you? SO lovely to *see* you here :0)

Thank you and I do hope you will try out this recipe sometime :0)

best wishes Rosie xoxo

Coffee and Vanilla said...

Now you made me really hungry!! :)
Great recipe Rosie.

Gloria Baker said...

Well my dear Rosie this is really awesome and yummy!!! lovely! Gloria

Maggie said...

What an excellent recipe and looks delicious.
I have a bumper crop of strawberries this year and think this recipe would be a great use for them.

Anitha said...

Hmmm...Thats such an interesting combination Rosie...Very tempting pictures too :-)

grace said...

oh rosie! strawberry-banana is a FABULOUS fruit combination, and it's one that i've never considered using in bread. brilliant. the addition of white chocolate is just a wonderful bonus. :)

Anonymous said...

You can't go wrong with those ingredients.

The Blonde Duck said...

This looks phenomenal!

Anonymous said...

Oooh yummy. Anything with White Chocolate is a winner in my book!

Funny, I was just looking on the web today at a few PYO farms in Essex for status update. Seems they got a few Strawberries but not a whole lot so are constantly getting picked clean. Probably going to leave it a couple more weeks for them to ripen and then also hopefully the early raspberries will be in season too. Double the booty!

Reeni said...

This sounds heavenly! What a lovely combo of flavors!

JillyB said...

I'd never have thought of putting those ingredients together but they look and sound great!

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Namratha said...

I have a lot of strawberries sitting in my fridge, I've tried pannacotta, ice cream and still have more left. I am going to try this very soon! Looks delicious.

♥Rosie♥ said...

Hi Margot, I wish I could pass you a slice or two through the screen .....

Hi my ‘dear’ Gloria oh you are so sweet thank you :0)

Hi M, ahhh thanks and wow how lovely to have your own crop :0) I hope you will try this bread out on a few of your strawbs...

Thank you so much Anitha so kind :0)

Thank you Grace it really is a lovely loaf cake to make so quick but packed with flavour :0)

Thanks applecrumbles so kind of you :0)

Hi Duckie , ahhh thanks sweetie :0)

Hi wonk, oh yes a double booty srawbs and raspberries wonderful :0) They are doing P.Y.O. Gooseberries up here in Lincs and I love gooseberry pie – YUM...

Hi Renni, thank you, it went down a storm with my hubby lol...

Ahhh thanks Jilly – I do hope you’ll try this bake :0)

Hi Nath, awe thank you, what an honour and thank you for thinking of me :0)

Namratha, ooooh yes pannacotta and ice cream that sounds scrumptious. Enjoy baking this sweetie :0)

Thank you all so very much my ‘dear’ friends for popping by and for all your very kind comments. It really is always lovely to *see* you :0)

Best wishes Rosie xoxoxox

Ingrid_3Bs said...

Rats, and here I finished up the last few of my over ripe bananas. I'll have to wait for my greens to turn before I give this a try. Though I might just go for it without the bananas.
~ingrid

Marta said...

Oh gosh! I LOVE picking my own berries, that's actually the number one reason I look forward to summer!
This bread looks great, naturally sweet and very moist :)

Deeba PAB said...

Yes Rosie, & you have me green with envy.Looks great...can onlt sit & gaze as out strawberry season is long gone. WOW!! xoxoxo

Cakelaw said...

Yum- white chocolate and strawberry together sounds delicious!

Sweet Treats by Dani said...

oh rosie! how did u know what i was craving???? :)

nora@ffr said...

have a nice week end rossie.
cheers!!

Recipeswap said...

Love the pics and I'm not even going to start abt the bread.Its all beautiful as usual.

Caroline said...

What a great combination of flavours. Your bread looks so moist, I'm going to give this a try.

Maria said...

What a great bread recipe! I am bookmarking this one!

Faery said...

Mmmmmm this bread looks so delicious love banana and strawberries, and if you add white chocolate ...yuuuummmmm :9

How To Eat A Cupcake said...

Mmm I love the strawberry/banana combo! :D

The Blonde Duck said...

Of course you must check for ripeness! I'll check to see if the bread is done...

Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...

I remember the days when my daughter would come out of the strawberry fields with her little face covered in strawberries. No pesticide use then of course. This is a lovely cake Rosie:D

Lore said...

Rosie your blog is truly a strawberry heaven this time of year, love it! I've never tried pairing strawberry with banana, sounds scrumptious and that last pic makes me dive right in with a fork :)

♥Rosie♥ said...

Ahhh you are all so kind and yes it must seem like strawberry fields forever here @ B.C.G. ;0)

Teehee.. Duckie you go for it girl and I'll keep checking those strawberries for ripness ;0)

Ahhh Val I can just picture your daughter tucking into strawberries - she my kinda girl teehee...

A warm welcome also to my new friends it really is lovely to *meet* you!

With my best wishes as always to you my dear friends - Rosie x

Anonymous said...

I made this bread yesterday and it was one of the best cakes I have ever made, lovely & moist too, and received lots of compliments when I shared it at work and by my family.
I made a slight change, by using dark chocolate chips instead of white, more to my taste.
Thank you for publishing this recipe.
Sue (Northampton UK)