Easy Banana Bread

There’s nothing I hate more than throwing away produce. Yet almost weekly I find myself digging through my fruit bowl to find and pitch whichever apple, peach, or lime has decided to rot. This week it was our bananas. They had gotten to the point where they were entirely brown. Yum. Thank goodness this is the perfect banana-state for banana bread. So I decided that this would be a great activity for Rose and me to complete today.

Recipe

3 Mashed Bananas

1 cup Sugar

1 Egg

¼ Melted Butter

½ cup Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Salt

Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a bowl, combine bananas, sugar, egg and butter. In a second bowl combine flour and baking soda. Slowly stir the banana mixture in until it is just mixed. Stir salt into batter. Finally, pour batter into your pan and bake until a toothpick comes out clean (around 1 hour).

Rose’s Experience

First off, we only had two bananas so we had to reduce the recipe by a third (I did my best with the egg). We began by throwing the bananas into the bowl and I helped Rose mash them. She enjoyed this, but she also enjoyed reaching in and grabbing a chunk of banana to eat every now and then also.

Then it was time to mix in the sugar. Oh boy! Rose was in heaven. She thought sugary bananas might quite possibly be the best invention ever. I could see I had a problem on my hands as the egg was next to be added. So I got her bowl of rice out (I have dedicated a bag of rice just for Rose to play in every now and again) and she played around in that while I finished the recipe.

Since my batch was smaller than what the recipe called for my bread only had to bake for around 40 minutes. I cut it up and buttered a piece for myself and another for Rose. We both enjoyed our yummy snack and I added this simple recipe to my recipe book for future use.