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It was love at first sight after i came throughout a Chocolate and Banana Bread whereas flipping through Linda Collister's e-book, Cakes and Bakes from My Mother's Kitchen. After a quick run by of the components listing, I had it bookmarked straight away. Here's a quote from the author:

'That is a real treat for kids in every single place or the large child in all of us. Use milk chocolate and a banana~ or chocolate flavoured yoghurt for youngsters or actually dark chocolate and pure yoghurt for adults. This bread does improve with conserving - even for just a day.'

I'm bought.

I would suppose most home bakers would try to bake something with bananas solely in the event that they were left with over-ripe bananas sitting on their kitchen counters begging to be used. For me, I specially bought a bunch of bananas and waited patiently for days, for them to turn black ;)

I stick carefully to the original recipe and even took the trouble to measure my baking pans to make sure it suits the description of a '450lb size loaf pan'. I additionally bought a bag of self-raising flour only for it although I may simply do a substitution with plain flour and baking powder. I've bookmarked just a few other recipes from this same e book, and most name for self elevating flour, so I'm certain that it will likely be put to good use soon.

The completed loaves didn't look precisely like the illustration in the cookbook and that was largely my fault as I have changed grated chocolates with baking chocolate chips. So, instead of a chocolaty, rustic loaf, I acquired a chocolate chips studded 'golden pillow' instead. I could not determine whether or not to love or hate the look of the completed loaves...from one perspective they have been so awful however from another angle, I believed they looked cute and rustic all at the identical time ;)

I encountered some mishaps when making ready the batter for this quick bread. With so little butter in comparison with the quantity of sugar and eggs, I used to be really skeptical that the batter could be 'superb'. True enough, the mixture did curdled into a multitude of 'tau-huay' (bean curd), however not upon including the eggs, however after I dumped in the yoghurt all at once. What a blunder! Fortunately, perseverance pays off, the heat from beating the butter brought on the mixture to come collectively, from a bowl of 'sugary crumbs' to something I'm more familiar with whenever I creamed butter and sugar together. I took additional care when including the eggs, figuring out that curdling can be quite unavoidable. Till now, I am undecided whether there may be any typo error as I still cannot imagine that the quantity of butter used is only a mere 55g? Indeed, I had a busy time attempting to cover the mixing bowl with my free hand to avoid having butter and suger splatting all over my counter.

In fact, I went on so as to add in the remainder of the substances, protecting my fingers crossed all the time...hopping it would not fall into that 'completely-waste-of-elements' category. Despite the blunders I made, the completed bread become deliciously moist and stuffed with banana goodness. The writer advised to serve it thickly sliced with chocolate and hazenut unfold (aka nutella), but I think it is admittedly not essential, but after all, no one will cease you or any child from doing so :) Tell me, who can refuse a slice that is filled with banana, chocolate, cinnamon and vanilla? These bread loaves were actually flavours and fragrance-packed, since I took the liberty so as to add in some vanilla extract and floor cinnamon.

Chocolate Chips Banana Bread

Ingredients:
(makes two loaves, pan measurement: 17.5cmx9cmx6cm))

55g unsalted butter, room temperature
150g mild brown mushy sugar/ gentle muscovado sugar (I minimize all the way down to 120g)
2 massive eggs, overwhelmed
100g natural yoghurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (not included in unique recipe)
350g over-ripe banana, mashed
300g self-elevating flour
1 teaspoon floor cinnamon (not included in unique recipe)
1/2 teaspoon salt
100g semi-candy chocolate chips (authentic recipe requires 200g milk or dark chocolate, coarsely grated)

Method:
- Line base and sides of 2 loaf pans with parchment paper. - With a spatula, stir in the mashed banana. (Optional: to ensure a pleasant crack upon baking, take away from oven after 15mins. With a knife, make a slit lengthwise along the centre of each loaf, return to oven and continue to bake till performed). Leave to cool in pans for 10mins. Unmold, take away parchment paper, transfer to wire rack and depart to cool fully. - The loaves are greatest if wrapped in baking paper and stored for 1 day earlier than chopping. Spoon batter into prepare loaf pans, level the floor. Tap the pans on the work surface a number of times to take away any trapped air bubbles. - Bake in preheated oven at 180degC for 40~45mins or till golden and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clear. - With electric mixer beat butter and sugar till effectively combined. Serve in thick slices with nutella unfold, if desired. Gradually beat within the eggs, little by little, followed by the yoghurt (add in steadily too) and vanilla extract. Sieve together flour, ground cinnamon and salt, set aside. Store in airtight container and consume within 4 days. Fold within the flour mixture, followed by the chocolate chips till simply combined.