carrot and banana loaf 🍌

• 5 tablespoons olive oil
• 125g brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 mashed ripe bananas
• 2 carrots
• 50g pitted dates 
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1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease a 900g loaf tin.
2. In a bowl, combine oil and sugar. Add eggs and mix well. Combine flour, bicarb, salt and cinnamon; gradually add to the oil and egg mixture alternately with bananas. 
3. In a food processor finely chop the carrot and dates and stir into the mixture
4. Tip into the prepared tin and bake for 55-65 minutes or until a skewer inserted near the centre comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from tin to a wire rack to cool completely.

✔️Top tip: swap the dates for raisens or walnuts