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Recipe Fruit and Vege Bread

Fruit and Vege Bread
  • Makes 16
  • 45 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 12 Ingredients
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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

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius (slightly lower for fan forced).
  2. 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.
  3. Place the carrot and broccoli into a food processor and blitz until the vegetables are finely chopped.
  4. Add the bananas and blitz again until the bananas are roughly chopped.
  5. Add the caster sugar and butter and blitz on high for 2 minutes.
  6. Add all other ingredients and blitz on high for 3 - 4 minutes.
  7. 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.
  8. Allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before turning out of the tray.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

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Comments

  • Looks really nice!! I’m sure my kids will love it

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  • A wonderfully healthy recipe; perfect for the kids lunchboxes, thanks!.

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  • I have never seen this type of home made bread before .

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  • I reluctantly tried this and I am impressed!

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  • oh what a great way to hide those vegies 🙂 Looking forward to testing this one out on the family 🙂

    • yeah i reckon it will be a winner for sure. the kids won’t be wise to the fact it is healthy for them lol.

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  • What a great idea to add fruits and veggies. My daughter doesn’t like carrot much, but loves banana cakes. This cake looks fantastic – will be making it this weekend. Thanks for another great recipe!

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  • i never would have thought that broc’ and banana would go together like this lol. very healthy bread for sure 🙂

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  • I am going to try peaches as well as bananas and the veges, what a great way to hide the veges

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  • I agree the walnuts would add an extra dimension of yumminess! I would probably zap mine in the microwave to have it warm with butter

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  • This is very much like banana bread (which I love) and even healthier with the added vegies.

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  • Great recipe – more like a cake than bread. Who wouldn’t like it?

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  • A wonderful big fruit and vegie muffin! Brilliant.

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  • This does look amazing 🙂 will have to try.

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  • What a beautiful recipe, Nikki!!

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