Recipes for banana bread often involve a long list of ingredients and a long baking time.

However, all that can be scrapped when baking your banana bread in the air fryer using Liana Green of Liana’s Kitchen food blog’s “easy” recipe.

Switching from an electric oven to an air fryer can save some dough when baking treats like banana bread, which usually takes over 45 minutes in the oven.

On her website, she wrote: “If you’re a fan of banana bread, you’ll be pleased to know that making air fryer banana bread is simple; some would say, a piece of cake.”

Liana noted that most bakes require the oven can be made in the air fryer as she explained that this banana bread recipe is one that she used to use the oven for.

Ingredients 

Two ripe bananas, medium in size, mashed

120g butter, softened

100g caster sugar

200g self-raising flour

Two medium eggs, beaten

One teaspoon of baking powder

One teaspoon ground cinnamon

Method 

Start by mixing together the butter and sugar until they are smooth. Then slowly add the beaten eggs and mix until they are combined.

The next step is to add the flour, baking powder and ground cinnamon, followed by the mashed bananas.

Make sure to stir everything together gently - just until it’s all combined. You don’t want to end up overworking the batter.

After, transfer the mixture to a greased baking tin and place it in the air fryer at 160 degrees for 30 minutes. There’s no need to preheat the air fryer beforehand.

At the end of the cooking time, the banana bread should be browned on the outside and cooked all the way through.

Insert a metal skewer to check it isn’t wet or soggy on the inside.

If it needs to be cooked for longer, check on it every five minutes to ensure it doesn't burn.

If the outside is already browned, you might need to cover it with some foil.