Kids Cooking and Cookbook Blog

Last time we used up ripe bananas to make fresh fruit smoothies , now if you’ve got any more bananas left that need using up, here is a delicious recipe for banana bread, which is more of a cake than a bread. It is moist and full of flavor and keeps well for several days, if there is any left by then!

Have you ever baked a cake from scratch before by hand? If you haven’t I’ll explain some of the terms you’ll see in the recipe, right after it. It’s not hard and once you’ve learned how, you can tackle almost any cake recipe there is!

Now that warmer weather is starting, bananas seem to get overripe before you’ve had time to eat them and who actually likes to eat squishy bananas? Let’s face it, the flavor is still OK but the texture is really off-putting… so how can you use up those overripe bananas to make something delicious, so they won’t be wasted?

(Now I’m not talking about the revolting ones that are black inside as well as outside, just the ones that have gone rather squashy and soft inside).