Baking | Banana Bread

My huge love for banana bread came about last year when I had my first slice, made by my sister-in-law. It was so good! Ever since then, I've been making my own banana bread with the same recipe. I (very kindly) thought I would share it with you all, so here it is...

Ingredients:

250g self-raising flour

125g butter

125g brown sugar (you can use normal white granulated sugar if you don't have brown)

2 large eggs

3 large mashed bananas

Method:

1. Grease or line your loaf tin, and preheat your oven to 180°C.

2. Sift flour (into a separate bowl, not your mixing bowl)

3. Cream butter and sugar (in mixing bowl), until light and fluffy.

4. Beat in eggs one at a time, then the bananas.

5. Fold in flour.

6. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.

7. Bake for 45 mins to 1 hour.

8. When cooked, leave the banana bread in the tin for 2 minutes, the turn onto a wire rack.

Serve plain, or with butter. Enjoy!

I think I'm doing pretty good at these baking posts ;) have you seen my Lemon Drizzle Cake post?

More baking posts coming your way soon!

DIY | Rainbow Water Beads

My rainbow water bead jar!

I came across this idea on Pinterest (of course), and fell in love with it. I ordered some water beads from eBay (10 bags for less than €1.50). This is what the bag looks like...

 Pop them in a large bowl/bucket/tub with water - the bag says 400g of water, but I poured on whatever I thought was right. I waited 4/5 hours until the beads had expanded, then drained off the excess water. For this jar, I think I used 2 bags (maybe a bit less), but I'm really not sure.

I had a clean Yankee Candle ready, and separated all the colours. I put the purple beads at the bottom, followed by blue, green, yellow, orange and red. It took about 10 minutes, but it's worth it. I think it looks so pretty! It's currently on my kitchen table, adding a pop of colour to it.

 

Have you tried anything with water beads? You can read more about them here.