Banana Muffins

Any sort of muffin is easy and quick for a child to make: the whole point is that the mixture must not be too vehemently or smoothly combined. The bonus here is that small children seem to have an inordinate passion for mashing bananas. In other words, an ordinarily biddable two-year-old can feel he or she is making these almost unaided. You will have to melt the butter and so on yourself, but – although I am perhaps irresponsibly insouciant about infantile involvement here – on the whole,