time for another little celebration

Yesterday this blog of mine got the follower no. 600, and so suitably we were able to celebrate it with a lovely loaf of banana bread that our kids did all by themselves (I did put the loaf in the oven, Miss A. tested to see when it was ready and I took it out though). So thank you for you all readers who like to read my blog and send me emails and post comments as feedback!

And happy October too – which is one beautiful month when one might be able to enjoy the autumn foliage and of course it’s now time to start preparing for Halloween (not so typical here but kids love this festivity, so we’ll definitely come up with something…)!

 

Our yummy banana-walnut bread that the kids made!

So here’s the recipe for the banana-walnut bread our kids made: 

• 3 large bananas (mine very pretty black, I just toss old bananas to freezer so we often have ingredients ready) 
• 1/3 cup melted butter (I often make recipes “healthier”, so one could add moisture with an extra banana and reduce some of the butter) 
• 3/4 cup of sugar 
• 1 beaten egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder or 1 teaspoon baking soda (we used banking powder as we had no soda and it worked really well) 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (sometimes I use vanilla sugar 2 tea spoons if I have no extract) 
• a little bit salt 
• Chopped walnuts 1/3-1/2 cup depending how much you like them 
• About 1.5 cups flour 

We still don’t have a mixer in the house and this recipe luckily doesn’t need one either. First we mash the bananas with a potato masher (so easy and fast) and add the melted butter (20-30sec in microwave will do). Just add the beaten egg, sugar and vanilla. Add the baking powder/soda and salt, and then stir in the flour. Last we add the walnuts. 

Butter a loaf pan – we had appr. 3×7 inches so it rose a lot, so 4×8 would work well too. Bake in the over for 50mins-1hour in 175 C (350F) – this largely depends on your over so check occasionally with a wooden stick whether the dough still sticks to it or not to see if’s ready (kids love this part). We coudln’t wait for the loaf to cool properly and ate it all warm, but it is harder to slice then. Then just enjoy with hot chocolate or a nice cup of tea or coffee!