Description: I've only made this once, but it was good. Always trying new banana bread variations, I must have tried at least a dozen or more over the years! Be sure to read my notes...
Date Added:
August 25, 2004
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Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter -- softened
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 3 bananas)
1/2 cup egg substitute
1/3 cup plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Cooking spray
Directions:
Preheat over to 350 degrees.
Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt, stirring with a whisk.
Place sugar and butter in a large bowl, beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 1 minute). Add banana, egg substitute, and yogurt; beat until blended. Add flour mixture, beat at low speed just until moist.
Place chocolate chips in a medium microwave-safe bowl, and microwave at High 1 minute or until almost melted, stirring until smooth. Cool slightly. Add 1 cup batter to chocolate, stirring until well combined. Spoon chocolate batter alternately with plain batter into an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Swirl batters together using a knife. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
Yield: 1 loaf; 16 slices (serving size: 1 slice)
Stacy's Notes - Made April 2004. Really good! I used 1/4 cup real (unsalted) butter, 3 medium bananas, which I did not measure, and everything else the same. I baked for 1 hour 10 minutes in my oven; next time might want to try to lower the temp 25ยบ (since I baked in dark nonstick pan) - the crust came out fairly hard and crusty (or else tent with foil the last few minutes). The inside was just right though. This tasted good right out of the oven, but there is NO way I got 16 slices out of it. Maybe 10 or 12 at the most. Make again, a keeper. (The only down side to this recipe was the number of bowls used - 1 for wet, 1 for dry, 1 for bananas, 1 to melt chocolate chips, etc. Made a lot of dirty dishes!)
Description:
"Chocolate and bananas are a natural pair. Toast and top with a spoonful of peanut butter for breakfast."
