Saturday, May 9, 2009

Pease, Mama. Poon?

While I was making banana bread today, Daniel was going crazy trying to move the stool and get to the spoons. All the while he kept saying "Pease, Mama? Poon? Need poon!" At first, I'm ashamed to say, I was annoyed by the interruption and told him he didn't need a spoon. As I watched his determination in moving the stepstool over to the silverware basket, I realized what he wanted.

"Do you want to help stir the banana bread?"

"Yes, Mama!" And his little face lit up. (And yes, he really says "Yes, Mama." It throws me for a look every time!)

Well, what is a mama to do but to get a spoon and move the bowl down where he can help?

Banana Bread
5 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup raw sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce, no sugar added
2 eggs
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup chocolate chips

Mix all the dry ingredients except the sugar.

Mix the banana and the sugar. Beat the egg and add it to the banana /sugar mix. Then add the wet ingredients to the dry.

Grease 2 loaf pans and bake at 350 for 30 to 45 minutes (it really varied because one pan was metal and one was glass).

If you cut each loaf into 10 slices, each slice is 2 WW points. But the smile on the helping toddler's face is priceless!

2 comments:

Carolyn R. Parsons said...

Gosh this is adorable! He's so intent on making that bread just perfect.

I'll be giving this recipe a good go! Need to buy ww flour is all!

Thanks for sharing
Breeze

Annette said...

It really is yummy. You can add more chocolate chips if you want, but even with just a little, my husband said it was the best banana bread ever!