We are baking a moist, delicious banana bread.
In this house, we love banana bread... my husband, myself, and my kids. It makes for a very happy family. Studded with chocolate chips, nuts, and coated with a chocolatey glaze, a loaf finishes off in less than a day.
The recipe is one I've adapted from a very old cookbook of mine, adding ideas and tweaking over the years.
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup toasted, chopped nuts (I like almonds)
- 1/2 tsp orange rind
- 2 large eggs
- 1 stick unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- *1/4 cup plain yogurt
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Butter and flour one 9X5 inch loaf pan.
- Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
- Put your chocolate chips, nuts and orange rind into the flour mix, and combine.
- Using an electric mixer, beat eggs until smooth.
- Add in butter yogurt, vanilla and blend well.
- Fold in the bananas. Stir to incorporate.
- Next fold in the wet mixture into your dry mix and combine, but don't over stir.
- Spread into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake for 50 minutes to an hour, until a toothpick inserted into the center pulls clean.
- Cool completely...if you can wait that long. Turn out on a rack. Now on to the glaze.
Chocolate glaze:
- Confectioner's sugar :1 cup
- Cocoa powder : 3 tbsp
- Milk: 3 tbsp
- Vanilla: 1/2 tsp
Method:
Whisk all the ingredients together to combine well. Pour over the loaf and let it set. Or heat and serve with slices.
Notes:
* I use nonfat plain yogurt, but you could use the full fat version
Notes:
* I use nonfat plain yogurt, but you could use the full fat version
( all pictures updated 5/20/2020)
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Just to show you what the first pictures I took looked like.
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