Legal, but weird.
There are a few easy ways to enjoy banana bread in a treehouse and our friends have been delighted with this treat.
1. Order the ingredients to be delivered to your treehouse.
2. Before the order and delivery service was available, we pre-measured the flour and sugar into ziplock bags and carried up to Casa Mariposa only the exact amounts we need. We have never been questioned about what these white powders are in our luggage when we boarded our flight in Canada or the USA. As far as we know, it’s legal to bring flour and sugar onto a plane, it’s just weird.
No need for a mixer with this recipe, so you can bake it in a treehouse without electricity.
Ingredients:
3 or 4 ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
½ tsp baking soda (grocery stores in Costa Rica carry teeny tiny pouches of baking soda)
Pinch of salt
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups of flour
Optional:
1 sheet of parchment paper, easily found in dollar stores
Directions:
1. preheat the oven to 175C (350F)
2. mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl
3. sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in
4. Stir in the sugar, beaten egg and vanilla
5. add the flour, mix.
6. pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 in loaf pan (or instead of buttering the pan, we prefer to line it with a sheet of parchment paper. Clean up is so easy with parchment paper.
7. bake for 1 hour. Relax in a rocking chair, watching butterflies, while it bakes.
8. cool. Remove from pan and slice to serve
Bon apetit!
Corinne, Casa Mariposa