Katie has made several batches of banana bread, but never just out of the blue, all by herself  like this morning. She is coming down with a bit of a cold, so we stayed home from church today. She noticed some bananas on the counter getting pretty ripe, and she asked if she could make some bread. She did it all herself, start to finish, no help from me, woo hoo! (Well except for the nagging to clean up her mess, but at least she put it all in the sink,

This time she used a tip that I read on one of my favorite blogs, Southern Plate. Christy Jordan says if you mix your bananas with your sugar when you mash them (using your mixer), you get tons more banana flavor than if you simply mashed them.

The loaves (3 small ones) turned out beautifully! So proud of my girl! When I was bragging on her to her Daddy, he said:

“Great, now that she has banana bread down, she can start working on mexican food.” (His favorite.)