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

- - ella12 said
  - 10 Feb 2016
    2:57 pm
I think I might pass on this one.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 19 Jan 2016
    2:32 pm
I will be making this for lunch boxes this week and freezing. I’m excited to see what the kids think -it will be a fabulous way to get them to eat healthily at school.

- - mom105503 said
  - 06 Jan 2016
    6:46 pm
What a super clever idea, I don’t generally have to hide veggies but this looks like a fantastic treat that is super healthy.

- - Mummytoabeautifulprincess said
  - 06 Jan 2016
    11:49 am
Any way to get more vegies into a little fuss pot is worth a try! Thanks for the recipe 🙂

- - mom118019 said
  - 06 Jan 2016
    11:40 am
Oh wow. I would’ve never thought to put carrot and banana together! Thanks I will try it on my very fussy 4 year old!

- - mars2370 said
  - 27 Dec 2015
    12:44 am
Looks great. Good way to get the kids to eat veg

- - Kasey said
  - 16 Dec 2015
    10:28 pm
Great recipe to hide veges, thanks for sharing

- - mom163392 said
  - 03 Dec 2015
    10:14 pm
looks like a great “vegie smuggling recipe”

- - mom118201 said
  - 03 Dec 2015
    4:09 pm
I like the sound of this, a healthier version of muffins/slice/cake. I will definitely be giving this a go, a great way to sneak in some fruit and veg for the kids.

- - rovermum said
  - 03 Dec 2015
    9:18 am
Perfect, fantastic, love it! And my son won’t even know about the vegies. Brilliant!

- - mom134803 said
  - 03 Dec 2015
    4:00 am
Sounds good with fruit and veggies in the cake !! A pity it has sugar added, otherwise we could call this quite a healthy cake. Think I would try it without sugar and maybe add some dates instead and replace the white refined self-raising flour with an healthier option like buckwheat-, spelt or lentil flour.

- - stephrat said
  - 03 Dec 2015
    12:09 am
I have never seen a recipe where veggies and fruit are combined into a single cake! Sounds too yum to not to try, so I’m definitely trying this recipe out!

- - curlytops said
  - 02 Dec 2015
    10:17 pm
I really like the sound of this using some veggies in the cake.

- - mom152736 said
  - 02 Dec 2015
    3:18 pm
This is fab… healthy and delicious ! Thank you so much for this healthy snack.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 01 Dec 2015
    9:55 pm
I am so making this, such a great way of sneaking in fruit/veg.

- - mom112217 said
  - 01 Dec 2015
    5:38 pm
Looks delicious and a healthy snack on the go,thanks!

- - linaianna said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    10:39 pm
Ft his looks interesting thanks for sharing

- - katherine90 said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    7:46 pm
This looks incredibly delicious, I love that it has both fruit and veges, a hybrid between banana cake and zuchinni muffins. I will try making this for my daughter to sneak in some veges in a yummy snack

- - cherz said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    3:50 pm
Yumm. must admit though I will try carrots, zucchini and banana first not to sure on broc or cabbage in cake but then again one must try. thanx Nikki.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    9:55 am
sounds great – like recipes that use lots of veg