Aloha Breakfast Bread

This is an excellent Hawaiian quick bread filled with the all flavours of the tropics included banana, pineapple, coconut and walnuts.

Ingredients make 1 loaf

½ cup soft butter (115g)

1 cup caster sugar (200g)

2 eggs (100g)

2 ripe mashed banana (225g)

¼ Cup milk (60ml)

1 tbls orange peel

1 tsp vanilla extract

1½ cup plain flour (250g)

½ tsp salt (3g)

1 tsp baking soda (5g)

1 cup toasted desiccated coconut (80g)

½ cup chopped pecan nuts (60g)

½ cup crushed pineapple (120g)

Method

Preheat oven to 160ºC normal bake. Place butter and sugar in a large bowl and mix until creamy. Add the eggs and mix evenly. Add banana, milk, orange peel and vanilla and combine. Place flour, salt and soda in a bowl and combine. Add flour mixture to the banana mixture and combine. Fold coconut, pecan nuts and pineapple into the mixture. Place mixture in a greased bread tin and bake in the oven for approx. 75 minutes. Allow the bread to cool in the tins for 5 minutes before removing and place on a wire. Allow cooling for at least 30 minutes before cutting and serving.

Note: Try other varieties of nuts instead of pecan such as walnuts, almonds and macadamia.