Playdough and Banana Bread

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I made these on Thursday night!
First the playdough recipe you can find a little ways down on my blog there, but I'll post it again with step by step instructions!

And here is how:

• 1 cup water
• 1 cup plain flour
• 2 tbsp cream of tartar
• 1/2 cup salt
• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• Vanilla essence or cinnamon
• Food Coloring

This was super easy for me! I didn't have cream of tartar so I cut it out of the recipe. It just adds elasticity. So ours doesn't have much!

Very simple:

1. Put all ingredients (minus coloring and vanilla/ cinnamon) in a pan (your child can help)
2. Stir over a medium (!) heat. Until smooth/ less sticky looking. If very sticky, cook a little longer. Probably a total of 10minutes?
3. Let cool.
4. Divide into three batches and add food coloring / smellies
5. Store in fridge

Here are our steps! These were my ingredients for the first time I tried, however this time I just used vanilla and only 3 colors.

Starting to get thicker

This is about the right consistency (Well a little thicker)

Flattened out on a  cutting board so it can cool

Separated and put gel color into. It's hard to mix gel color

As I said, it's HARD to mix gel color so this is the best I could do

They are in the fridge and have been played with twice already!

NOW here I made Banana Bread! YUM. It was so delicious and unbelievably easy!

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup) I CUT DOWN TO 3/4
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

 

Here are my steps!

  Mash bananas. I used none other than a potato MASHER

Melt 1/3 cup butter and add

Add Egg, Vanilla, and Sugar

Add flour last

Pour into loaf pan and DONE

Don't they look DELICIOUS??

They were so tasty and gone in 2 days!!! Good breakfast and I can see myself making this often as we always have very ripe bananas!!