Banana Bread

Banana bread is probably Little P's favorite food.  Every weekend, and some mornings on the way to school we stop off at a local café for a soy flat white, a babycino and a slice of banana bread, lightly toasted, with butter.  So this weekend, with the rain keeping us in, we decided to make our own.

We went for a really easy recipe...

• 4 ripe bananas
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp banilla
• 1 tsp baking soda
• a pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

Little P was a big help on this one... peeling all the bananas - and then smashing them up with her spoon.  As you can see from the pictures, she even had a little help from her Toy Story friends!

Once the bananas were all mashed up, we added the melted butter and mixed it well. I melted the butter on the stove, but you could easily do it in the microwave.  Then we added the sugar, the egg and the vanilla and stirred it until it was smooth, before adding the baking soda and salt and mixing it well.

Finally we added the flour to finish off our banana bread batter.  However, we decided to make this loaf an extra special treat, so we added about 1/4 cup chocolate chips.  You could also consider adding nuts or even shredded coconut if you wanted to do something different.

We baked the banana bread at 175 Celsius for about an hour, until it turned a beautiful golden brown. We only let it cool a short while because we couldn't wait to get into it!