Best Choc-Chip Banana Bread EVER

 

I found this recipe for Banana Chocolate Chip Bread when I was trolling the internet for a way to use up all of my frozen bananas that kept hitting my hubby and kids on the head when they opened the freezer door!  This recipe is FANTABULOUS!!! (my new word for fantastic and fabulous!)  Take my word for it...make a double batch!!  


Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

• Serves: makes 1 loaf
• Prep Time: 15 min
• Total Time: 1 hour 15 min

You need 3 or 4 really nasty looking bananas for this recipe. Add chocolate chips to make it all taste wonderful.
Yes, you can add nuts too or instead... substitute a 1/2 cup of nuts for a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips...

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 Bananas- Brown and nasty is perfect
• 1 cup Sugar- maybe a little more
• 1 stick Butter - melted
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips- ok... maybe a little more....

Instructions

Grease a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. If you want to hedge your bets, cut a piece of parchment paper to fit in the bottom of the pan. Spray it.
Heat oven to 350 degrees


Put the bananas (the insides, not the peel) and the sugar in a mixing bowl. Mix on HIGH for a few minutes. Add the melted, cooled butter, eggs, and the vanilla. Mix it up, scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Add baking soda and flour, combine.
Add chocolate chips, mix it all up.


Scrape the dough into the loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour, until browned on top, and a toothpick stuck in it comes out clean.

Let the pan cool on a rack for 20 minutes or so.

Turn out onto rack to cool completely.

Slice and eat.

So, does this make you want to make banana bread today??   :)

A.Marie