Going Bananas

Kimberley :)

Hey everyone! If you'll recall, last month, my friend Kimberley and I embarked on a baking quest with high hopes, that ended with, let's just say, low outcomes. Our dream of fluffy, cute, Instagram-worthy cookies turned out to be an abomination to say the least. Did it impact any faith we had in ourselves to bake? Potentially for a while... but certainly not anymore! We decided to give it another go - the goal: to create an edible, aesthetically pleasing loaf of banana bread. We followed Estee's recipe here. I love to bake banana bread because it's super easy & all the ingredients you're already likely to have! Plus, it's a great way to put to use the overly ripe bananas no one wants to touch. 

So without further ado, these are the ingredients we used: 

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas
• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 stick of butter
• 1 cup brown sugar 
• 1 egg 

Peel the bananas into a bowl, add milk. baking soda & vanilla essence and mash to your heart's content

Time to mix dry ingredients - flour, baking powder & salt

Blend softened stick of butter and raw sugar into a very healthy mixture

The batter after slowly adding in the dry ingredients, egg & mashed banana 

Ready for the oven! It took about 60 minutes to fully cook at 180 degrees celsius

such suspense at this point but it smelt soooo good

Success

Aw yis one professional looking plate of banana bread 

Kim and I were so happy the banana bread tasted and looked good - so we aren't complete culinary failures. After a successful baking night, we half-watched a terrible B-grade horror movie (this is why I don't do horror guys). Nevertheless, it's always nice to see and catch up with her! 

Also, I realised I only managed to upload twice through April... *disappointed in self*. In all honesty, I blame mid semesters but yes, I know, I gotta pick my game up. Butttt, I'm going to aim to post at least once a week this month *fingers crossed*. So hopefully you'll be hearing from me soon! Take care, love Thy x.