Bread of the banana kind

Hi there

Yesterday I made banana bread. It’s pretty good if I do say so myself. It made me feel like an ingredient mum because I didn’t let my bananas go to waste.

This is the third time I have made banana bread recently. However, this is only the second time that I have made good banana bread. I was put off for a while because my last one tasted too much like banana.

So I’ve decided to very generously grace you all with my banana bread recipe. When I say “my recipe” I mean that I used someone else’s recipe and now I don’t remember where I got it from so it’s mine now.

Of course it is gluten free, but if you’re inclined to eat gluten, then you may do so. I will not though.

So here it is.

Ingredients:

• 3 bananas (not too big, it will taste bad)
• 75g melted butter
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of salt (not sure why)
• 150g sugar (this is probably too much though so like just eyeball it)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 200g flour (gluten free in my case)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• chocolate chips – I just use dairy milk buttons and just kinda crush them up a bit

Now for the method:

• preheat oven to 170 degrees celcius for fan oven (I always forget this step and then have to wait ages so just don’t forget)
• mash bananas – if it doesn’t look gross then it’s not mashed enough
• add ingredients in order, whisking between
• pour into loaf pan (I put baking paper in it to make it easier)
• remember to put some of your chocolate chips on top; i also forget this step
• bake for 50-60 minutes
• “immediately turn out onto cooling rack” (not sure what the urgency is about here, it makes me feel under pressure)

Thanks for reading. I’m gonna go eat banana bread now.