Nutty Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

Nutty Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

Why throw away ripened bananas when you can make a delicious banana loaf?

You'll need:
- 3 or 4 ripened bananas, smashed
- 1 egg, beated
- 1/3 cup of butter, melted
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 cups of flour

- 1/4 cup your choice of chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts work best)

- 1/4 cup of chocolate chips of your choice

Start by preheating your oven to 350 and lining your pan with parchment paper or with butter.

Now start by mixing together, with a wooden spoon, the smashed bananas, beated egg and melted butter. Then add in the sugar, vanilla extract, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Mix. Add the flour and mix, if there are some banana chunks that's fine you don't want the mixture to be entirely smooth. Add in the walnuts and chocolate chips, mix on last time and then pour into your lined pan.

Bake for about 45 minutes to an hour. When done, insert a toothpick, butter knife or whatever into the loaf and if it comes out clean, without batter, it's ready!

Let it sit for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan, and serving.

Enjoy!

Steps to ripened banana's

B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

I love them, best fruit for smoothies, quick snacks, and best in desserts. Usually when I bake I decide a day or two before, this doesn't work so well when I want to bake a banana loaf or something that needs ripened bananas.

So if you find yourself in my dilemma try these techniques:

1)  Give yourself a day or two before you actually bake the item that needs the ripened bananas. Take however many banana's you need put them in a plastic bag, and add a bruised apple. Close the bag shut and let it sit.

Banana's out of the oven

When you open the bag it won't look pretty, but it'll be nicely ripened!

2) Preheat your oven to 300, place your x amount of bananas on a baking sheet and bake for one hour. The peel will turn completely black, but the inside will be sweet. Keep in mind though that this will not work for green banana's, the banana's need be at least a little ripe already.

3) When you see that you have ripening banana's don't throw them away, place them in a freezer safe bag and freeze them. Whenever you're ready to use them take them out and defrost them, they'll be perfect!

All the best!