Banana Bread

Ingredients
225g self-raising flour
a pinch of fine sea salt
100g cold butter, cut into cubes
90g golden caster sugar
100g dark chocolate chips
75g hazelnuts, lightly roasted and chopped
2 eggs, lightly beaten
450g mashed bananas (4 medium sized ripe bananas)
1 extra banana to decorate

Method
Line a 2 pound loaf tin with baking parchment and preheat your oven to 180ºC/gas mark 4.
Sieve the flour and salt into a large bowl. Add the cubes of butter to the bowl and rub the butter into the flour until it looks like rough breadcrumbs.
Add the sugar, chocolate chips and chopped hazelnuts. Stir these into the mixture and make a well in the centre.
Mix the eggs and mashed banana in another bowl and add these into the well. Bring all of the ingredients together with a wooden spoon until combined.
Scoop the mixture into your prepared tin and flatten it with the back of a spoon. Slice your remaining banana lengthwise after you take it from the skin. Place each half on top of the loaf. It will sink slightly.
Bake the loaf for approximately an hour and ten minutes until golden on the top and firm to touch.
Once cool enough to handle remove the loaf from the tin using the baking parchment to gently leaver it out. Peel off the baking parchment and place the loaf onto a wire rack and allow it to cool down before cutting.
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