Toy's Haven

Hi Friends~

I got a wild hair this morning and decided that the five brown bananas on my counter were  NOT going to be wasted.  At 8am this morning I was baking banana bread!  Now, I don’t make your run of the mill banana bread.  I was raised on chocolate chip banana bread :).  Yummo!!!

Since my batch yielded 2 large (8×4″) loaves and one small (5×3″) loaf, I decided to share the love with our next door neighbors.  They have their 4 yr old granddaughter staying with them for a month and she is just the cutest little thing.  She has been outside helping her grandpa with yard work for the last couple of days.  I can tell she has him wrapped around her little finger.

Of course, I couldn’t just take a PLAIN loaf of bread to them, so I had to spiff it up a bit.

Deets:

Stamps:  There She Goes’ Just For You

Colors: SU Bella Rose dp

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, copics

Accessories: hole punch, 1/2″ circle punch, twine, word window punch, dimensionals, sticky tape, curvy label punch

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Recipe:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Grease and flour bottom of loaf pans only

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Ingredients:

3 cu flour

1 and 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 cu softened butter

3 eggs (beaten)

3/4 cu brown sugar

1/2 cu sugar

3 cu mashed bananas

12 oz bag of chocolate chips

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Directions:

Mix dry ingredients  (flour, baking soda and salt) in a large mixing bowl

Mix wet ingredients (butter, sugar, eggs and bananas) in a medium mixing bowl

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.

Fold in chocolate chips

Fill loaf pans 3/4 full and put in preheated oven.

Since all ovens cook differently, I suggest you check your loaves after 30 minutes.   When you can poke a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean, they are done.

Let loaves cool on a baking rack in the pans for 10 – 15 minutes before removing from the pans.  Let cool before wrapping.   I wrap mine in plastic wrap and then cover them in aluminum foil to keep them moist.

Enjoy!

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Now I think I’ll go have a piece :).

Thanks for stopping by!!

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