Can you freeze chocolate chip banana bread?
Yes. Freeze the pieces on a lined tray until firm, then pack them into a container.
How to freeze and defrost it, with the Food Standards Agency’s advice at each step.
The recipe
One batch makes 8 portions.
Ingredients for 8 portions
Method
Prep
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan). Use the top and bottom heat setting if your oven has one.
- Grease a 900g loaf tin with salted butter and line the base and sides with baking paper.
Batter
- Mash banana with a fork and set aside.
- Use a standing mixer or hand whisk to cream salted butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat medium egg, then add it to the mix a little at a time with self-raising flour.
- Fold in the remaining self-raising flour and baking powder.
- Fold in the mashed banana.
- Fold in milk chocolate chips.
Bake
- Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for 35 minutes, until a skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean.
- If it doesn't, bake for 5 more minutes and test again.
- Leave in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
How to freeze
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cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Cut into 8 slices.
- Spread them out on a lined tray and freeze until firm, then pack into your container.
How to defrost
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the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Take it out of its container.
How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety
Nutrition
Per portion- Energy
- 370 kcal
- Fat
- 19.8g
- Carbohydrate
- 42.4g
- Protein
- 4.8g
Nutrition details
- Energy
- 370 kcal
- Fat
- 19.8g
- of which saturates
- 11.9g
- Carbohydrate
- 42.4g
- of which sugars
- 29.2g
- Fibre
- 1.9g
- Protein
- 4.8g
- Salt
- 0.8g
Estimated from ingredient data.
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Part of a whole bunch of bananas
2 bananas of a bunch of 6 bananas: for the freezer, 8 slices. The same session makes banana oat bites.
No special kit
- Works best in air-tight containers Any freezer-safe container does the job too.
- Everything from one shop Batch cook it with Nomstash and the air-tight containers go on the same shopping list as the food.
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Freezing and defrosting safely
The Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words.
Label everything you freeze.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
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