Fruit and Vege Bread

This Fruit and Vege Bread is a fabulous recipe for morning teas in the school lunchboxes.
It freezes beautifully, you can ice or you can slice through the middle and add some butter. Best of all, it includes some veges and fruit!
If you’re making this for home or for adults, walnuts would go beautifully in this recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients (makes 16 cake squares)

1 carrot
1/2 cup broccoli or zucchini or even cabbage (purple or green)
3 - 4 ripe bananas
100g Caster Sugar
220g Self Raising Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Eggs
100ml Butter Milk (or use 100ml milk with a squeeze of lemon)
130g Unsalted Butter
1 tsp Vanlilla Extract
1 tsp Mixed Spice or Cinnamon

Method

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius (slightly lower for fan forced).
Grease and line a 20 - 25cm square or round tin. You can make this mixture into muffins perfectly - just use muffin cases instead of the tin.
Place the carrot and broccoli into a food processor and blitz until the vegetables are finely chopped.
Add the bananas and blitz again until the bananas are roughly chopped.
Add the caster sugar and butter and blitz on high for 2 minutes.
Add all other ingredients and blitz on high for 3 - 4 minutes.
Pour the mixture into the tin and make a well in the centre of the mixture to ensure it rises fairly evenly. If using muffin cases, only half fill each case with the batter.
Allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before turning out of the tray.
Cook for 30 - 35 minutes if you are using a square or round tin. Test for readiness by inserting a wooden skewer into the centre of the cake; if it comes out clean, it's ready.
You can ice this cake if you like with a cream cheese icing but I prefer to keep it very simple and just sprinkle with icing sugar.

76 Comments

- - DaffyD said
  - 10 Jun 2019
    3:24 pm
Looks great and a yummy way to get some serves in

- - happymum2018 said
  - 12 May 2019
    6:55 pm
I would try to add some more fruit just to make it a little bit sweeter thankyou

- - tessie said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    12:17 pm
Can’t wait to try this.

- - rovermum said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    10:03 am
Wow, I’d love to try this.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    7:25 pm
Wow, would be interesting to try!

- - Ellen said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    10:45 am
Nice one ! I would like to leave the sugar out, maybe add some brown rice syrup instead and use chick pea flour or lentil flour instead of self raising flour (making it gluten free for my eldest). Instead of butter milk and using butter, I would use coconut oil and milk (making it diary free for my youngest)

- - mom114371 said
  - 11 Mar 2019
    11:10 pm
Wow I wouldn’t have thought broccoli would go well with this! I’m keen to try it!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 11 Mar 2019
    9:09 pm
Sounds interesting, I will have to give it a go and see what it tastes like!

- - mom241861 said
  - 01 Jul 2018
    8:31 am
Definitely going to bake this thank you the ingredients are great.

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 28 Nov 2017
    10:58 am
Wow this looks light and fluffy and sounds quite healthy

- - mom112023 said
  - 01 May 2017
    11:27 am
This looks lovely. Will be having a go. Thanks.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 21 Oct 2016
    12:17 pm
Wow, what a different mix of ingredients. I love that it has fruit and veg in it.

- - ella12 said
  - 07 Sep 2016
    1:57 pm
An interesting recipe, thanks for sharing.

- - rovermum said
  - 07 Mar 2016
    3:16 pm
I love this. What a fantastic way to get an extra serve of veg in your day.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 05 Mar 2016
    4:57 pm
I would probably minimize the sugar content.

- - mom134803 said
  - 04 Mar 2016
    3:10 am
Sounds good except for the sugar, I would leave that out.
- Threelos replied
  
  13 Apr 2016 , 8:26 pm
  I was wondering how it would taste through – I guess the bananas would make it really sweet already.
- - rachkap said
  - 04 Mar 2016
    2:31 am
A very interesting sounding recipe – thanks

- - mom101628 said
  - 03 Mar 2016
    9:11 pm
Brilliant idea – but in our schools strict food policy we’ll be eating this fabulous bread at home!

- - serotonin said
  - 28 Feb 2016
    10:48 pm
When I first saw the title I was worried it was going to have dried fruit in it (I hate peel!) but what a relief to see it doesn’t. And it looks and sounds scrumptious! Will be making this for sure. Thanks for sharing!

- - Some_Toss said
  - 19 Feb 2016
    12:02 am
This is brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing!