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A white plate with a sliced loaf topped with rhubarb

Rhubarb Banana Bread

An easy recipe for seasonal banana bread with rhubarb stalks, chocolate and almonds.
Course Snack
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter melted
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • ½ cup cane sugar
  • tsp vanilla sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 4-5 ripe bananas
  • cup whole milk
  • cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup whole-wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • cups chopped bitter chocolate
  • ½ cup almonds chopped
  • 5 small stalks strawberry-red rhubarb

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease loaf pan and set aside.
  • In large bowl, stir together butter, brown sugar, cane sugar and vanilla sugar. Stir in eggs one at a time. In another bowl, mash bananas and stir in milk; stir into sugar mixture.
  • In large bowl, whisk together all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour and baking powder. Fold into sugar mixture until combined; fold in chocolate and almonds. Scrape into prepared pan.
  • Cut rhubarb stalks to fit pan lengthwise, then press half of them into dough; place remaining stalks on top.
  • Bake until cake tester inserted into centre comes out clean, about 50 minutes.