Cooking with Kids-Best Banana Bread Recipe

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Check out this super simple banana bread recipe to cook with your kids today. Cooking teaches kids skills and helps them try new foods. It just takes a little planning to learn how to teach kids cooking classes.

Cooking with kids is a great way to teach them about math and science as well as helping them get familiar with ingredients and making them more likely to eat a bigger variety of food. Cooking helps kids develop fine motor skills as well as learn to take turns and be patient. And it’s just plain fun!

My kids LOVE to “pop” or “hatch” the eggs, stir, add ingredients and everything else involved in cooking anything. It builds their self-esteem as well. Learning they CAN do things is great for their development. Teamwork and social skills are a great product of cooking with kids along with healthy, fresh, clean ingredient snacks.

Banana bread for kids

Before you cook anything with the kids and start your kids cooking classes, the first step is ALWAYS to wash their hands. After their hands are washed, for this delicious bread, I let the kids cut the bananas up with a butter knife and add them to the bowl.

Easy Banana Bread Recipe

This is a really moist banana bread recipe that you’re sure to love. It’s a pretty classic banana bread recipe, but it’s also very easy. Once your kids know how to make banana bread, they have learned a skill they can use. Cutting, following a recipe, cracking eggs, and stirring and mixing are all skills kids need.

Once all the bananas are cut up and added to the bowl, the kids can take turn smashing the bananas until they are fully broken down. Or you can use frozen bananas that you have rethawed.

Next, they add the other wet ingredients to the mix. Then there is lots of stirring.

Baking classes for kids

Next, it’s time to add the dry ingredients to the recipe. I have all the ingredients pre-measured and prepared at the table before the kids sit down to cook, so they don’t have to wait for me to get everything together. This helps keep problems from arising. We use whole wheat flour in our banana bread so it will meet the whole grain requirements for the food program.

After the rest of the dry ingredients are added to the bowl, it’s time for a little more stirring. Stirring can be done by all the kids to make sure everyone get plenty of turns to do a job. Everyone wants lots of turns, so break each step into as many turns as possible.

You could have added chocolate chips or nuts to this recipe before you pour it into the loaf pan.

Next, dump the batter into the loaf pan and bake it in the oven. Then in an hour or so, it’s snack time, the best time!

For more homemade bread recipes, check these out. And check here for some great beginner sourdough bread recipes too.

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Banana Bread Recipe-Kids Cooking Classes

Sweet yummy banana bread made from real food to cook with kids

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time1 hr

Total Time1 hr 10 mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: banana bread, kids cooking classes

Servings: 10

Author: Christina Kamp

Ingredients

• 1 C. all purpose flour
• 3/4 C. whole wheat flour
• 2/3 C. raw sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3 medium bananas mashed
• 1/3 c. coconut oil
• 2 T. coconut milk
• 2 eggs

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mash banana and add coconut oil, and milk.
• Mix very well.
• In a separate bowl mix all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Add to banana mixture and mix very well.
• Add eggs and whole wheat flour.
• Mix until JUST combined.
• Pour into greased loaf pan and bake at 350 for 55-60 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Notes

Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book

Cooking with kids is so much fun and not difficult to do if you plan ahead. It’s a great activity that teaches the kids innumerable skills. I hope you get to cook start kids cooking classes with your kids soon!