Banana Bread

 

Last day of term ... yaay!

The kids and I can't wait to get back to school. School also means a million snacks, play dates after school ... and lots of hungry, picky children popping over unplanned. That is why we are all scrambling to have some snack ready at all times. Breads come in handy as snacks .. and that is why I set about looking for a new bread recipe to try.

I had some really ripe bananas which I needed to do something about. So it seemed like a good idea to go for a banana bread, and I found this truly wonderful recipe. I have copied the recipe here, along with a few changes that I made.

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe bananas. I mashed them up in my little blender, but you could use a fork ... whatever suits you :).

• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 cup sugar. I used raw sugar, and it worked great.
• 2 cups plain flour.
• 3 tbsps water, 3 tbsps oil, 2 tsps baking powder, mixed together IN THAT  ORDER about 5 minutes before using. Please do not make the mixture too much ahead of time, or it will lose some of the fizz and the cake will not rise very well.
• 1/4 tsp baking soda.
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence (this is of course optional)

Method:

• Preheat oven  to 350 degrees.
• Mix all the above ingredients IN THE GIVEN ORDER (this is very important, as if the order is changed the result is not as good.)
• This is the point where I added 1/2 cup sultanas :-) which were not in the original recipe.
• Pour the mix into a cake/bread pan and bake till skewer comes out clean.

It looks YUMM, and smells YUM and you basically you want to have it straight away ... which is what my kids did :-).
Lucky it was a big one, so I did manage to save some for tomorrow!

My kids loved it with cream cheese, and my husband and I tried it with ice-cream which worked great as well...

I hope you try it too. I am going to be making this quite often now. Thank you Rose a.k.a Magpie :-)