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Banana Bread (with extras!) Recipe!! (difficulty level: I don’t know what I’m doing)

This recipe is eggless! It can be made vegan by using a butter substitute.

@cuddlingsun sorry it took me so long to post it, yesterday got v busy!

Ingredients - Necessary items:

Bananas - I usually use three. Ripe/brown. Mash them!

½ cup butter/shortening/margarine (can use a little less for Health)

¾ cup sugar

1 ½ cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda (like, the small spoons in your house!)

1 tsp salt

2 tsp vanilla essence

Ingredients - bowls and things

Large bowl for mixing

Loaf pan or other smallish baking pan

Something to stir with

Something to mix up your ingredients with

Big sieve to sift flour etc (or pour it in slowly if you don’t have one)

Ingredients - Bonus

This is the fun stuff and you can add literally whatever you want!! I use the following in fairly random and yet generous amounts

chocolate chips (m&m’s or other candy work really well too)

cocoa powder (honestly I use hot chocolate mix for this, it’s delicious)

walnuts (use like… ½ cup and squish them so they’re not Whole Walnuts)

oats

nutmeg (I spilled like 2 tablespoons worth in the mix this time by accident but use like 2 teaspoons and it will be Good and taste like Fall)

cinnamon (1-2 tsp max)

confectioner’s sugar to sprinkle on top so it looks like it has Lightly Snowed on your banana bread. for the aesthetic.

How to Make The Thing

Preheat your oven to 325°F/165°C. Take all the pots and pans out first if you use your oven for storage like I do, lest you burn all the handles off

Grease your pan. I used a loaf pan but I’ve also made it in a bigger, flatter baking pan when I didn’t actually have a loaf one. I usually spray oil and then use a paper towel to spread it around and get all parts of the tray

Pour your sugar in the bowl, and add the butter (helps if you soften or melt it first). Mix them up together and add in your 2 tsp vanilla.

Add your flour to the sieve, add baking soda and salt. Sift all of it into your sugar mix

Add the mashed bananas and stir the whole mixture together

BONUS STEP: add your bonus ingredients!! Any order is fine, just make sure you get them evenly mixed into the dough. Especially if you’re using cocoa powder - you don’t want patchy bits of chocolate dough

Pour your batter into the pre-greased pan and stick it in the preheated oven! A good Standard Amount Of Time is 60 min if you’re using a deep loaf tin, but just open your oven every 15-20 min and stick a lil toothpick in the side (not the edges) of the loaf once it’s risen. If the toothpick comes out clean, it’s done. Let the loaf sit out and cool on the counter for 15-20 min and then sprinkle your sugar on top

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