Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

Bananas, a fruit that can qualify as a sole dessert. It's quite a favorite with the family. So, why would not the star ingredient in my very first BFMK post be the just that?

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. 

 Ingredients:  

• 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

     Method:

• 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

 ( all pictures updated 5/20/2020)

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Just to show you what the first pictures I took looked like.