Banana, chocolate and walnut cake

Ingredients:

3 ripe bananas , peeled
250g caster sugar
2 eggs
140g softened butter
250g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
100g walnut pieces
100g good quality (70%) chocolate chopped

Method:

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. 

In a large bowl, mash together the bananas and the sugar with the back of a fork. Add the eggs and mix well with an electric hand whisk until fully incorporated, then add the butter and mix for a couple mins more to blend everything together. 

Sieve in the flour and baking powder and fold together with a spatula, then add the walnuts and chocolate chips. Give everything one final mix before tipping into the lined loaf tin.

Bake for 1 hr 5 mins or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool slightly in the tin, then turn out and serve cut into thick slices, either warm or at room temperature.