Nutella Banana Bread for World Nutella Day 2012

It's that time of the year to drool over Nutella again, actually there isn't  one day of the year to drool or eat Nutella.  Sara from Ms.Adventures in Italy and Michelle from Bleeding Espresso are the two wonderful hosts of our World Nutella Day.  This day bloggers from all over the world unite to celebrate and enjoy this yummy Nutella.  Last year I made these Nutella Cake Pops for World Nutella Day.  This year I was bit sick and feeling tired, still I didn't want to give up, so some how I managed to whip up this quick bread.

  You'll hardly need 5 minutes to prepare this cake.  This quick bread can be enjoyed as a breakfast or just as a tea time snack but today it's only for Nutella day, a big thumbs up to Nutella on this World Nutella Day.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes.
Cooking Time: 25 - 30 minutes.
Makes 2 mini loaves.

Ingredients
Whole Wheat Flour / Plain Four - 230 gm
Brown Sugar - 75 gm
Sunflower Oil - 113 ml
Milk - 60 ml
Nutella - 3 generous tbsp
Banana - 2 mashed
Eggs - 2 nos
Baking Powder - 2 tsp
Bicarbonate of Soda - 1/4 tsp
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Walnuts - 10 nos (chopped)

Method
Preheat the oven to 190 degree Celsius.  Grease and line 2 mini loaf tins.

Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda in a large bowl.  Mix the sugar along with the flour to give a dry mixture.  Mash the banana in a separate bowl and beat in the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla essence with it to give a wet mixture.  Slowly add the wet mixture to the dry mixture.  Gently fold the mixture to just combine.  The mixture will look quite lumpy but do not over mix it as it will result in a stodgy bread.  Finally fold in the chopped nuts.  Pour the mixture into the prepared tins and bake it in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.  

Take it out from the oven and leave it to cool in the wire rack for 5 minutes.  Slice the breads and serve while they are still warm with honey and bananas or just on their own. 

This recipe is linked with World Nutella Day 2012.