Larry's Kitchen
🍳 Banana Bread
🦁 Why Larry Likes This One
Larry loves how it uses up old bananas!
Serves
8
Prep
15 min
Cook
50 min
Level
⭐⭐ Getting Confident
⚠️ Allergen Information
🌾Gluten (Cereals)🥚Eggs🥛Milk
Always check ingredient labels every time you cook. Ingredients can change. If your child has a diagnosed food allergy, follow their healthcare team's advice.
🥕 Ingredients
- •3 large ripe bananas
- •200 g plain flour
- •100 g butter
- •100 g caster sugar
- •1 egg
- •1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- •1 tsp vanilla extract
🔧 Equipment
loaf tinmixing bowlfork
📝 Method
🔥 Oven/Cooking temperature: 180°C / Gas 4
- 1Adult: preheat the oven to 180°C / Gas 4.
- 2Mash the bananas with a fork.
- 3Melt the butter and mix with the bananas, sugar, egg and vanilla.
- 4Mix in the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
- 5Pour into a lined loaf tin.
- 6Adult: bake for 50 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
- 7Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out.
🦁 My Jobs
- ✓ Mash bananas
- ✓ Mix the batter
- ✓ Pour into tin
👨👩👧 Grown-Up Jobs
- ⚠️ Use the oven
- ⚠️ Handle hot loaf tin
- ⚠️ Use a skewer to test — be careful of hot steam
⚠️ Food Safety
- • Adult must operate the oven
- • Loaf tin will be very hot — use oven gloves
- • Test with a skewer — if it comes out clean, it's done
🧩 Try It Your Way
Try adding chocolate chips, walnuts or blueberries.
