WARNING: When I was editing these pictures, Devin told me that I shouldn't post them, because the ones with the bananas in them looked gross. But, I think they are great steps. So, yes I let the bananas get ripe, and yes I froze them until I was ready to use them, so yes they look a little weird. But, now you're warned.
This recipe is my Mom's and I merged it with Our Best Bite's directions on how to make chocolate swirl banana bread.
Banana Bread with Chocolate Swirls Recipe
Ingredients:1 c margarine or butter
2 c sugar
4 eggs
2 c mashed bananas (about 5)
1/2 c milk
2 tsp lemon juice
4 c all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c nuts, chopped (optional, this is in my Mom's recipe, but I never put the nuts)
1/2 c chocolate chips (optional)
Directions:
Beforehand: Let butter/margarine soften. If your bananas are frozen, pull them out of the freezer. I'm going to give you a little tip on how to prep frozen bananas, you can do this at any stage you feel you have time:
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1. Cream margarine and sugar
2. Add eggs and mix well
3. Add bananas, milk, and lemon juice. Mix well
4. Add in dry ingredients. mix
without chocolate swirls: pour in 2 large loaf pans or 3 medium loaf pans and bake at 350 for 1 hour.
with chocolate swirls:
-melt your 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
-once melted, mix 1 c of the banana bread butter in with the chocolate chips.
I made 3 medium loafs. I left one plain banana and did the swirls to 2 loafs. I liked the banana to chocolate ratio, but you can do it however you want.
First, put a layer of the banana batter down. Next, put a layer of the chocolate batter. Using a knife, swirl it around to create a marbled look. To do this, you'll want to bring the knife up and down while you're swirling. REPEAT as many times as you want. NOTE: you need to end with the BANANA batter on top. The chocolate burns. Make sure it is well covered.
Yum. I'm going to go eat some right now!!!
6 comments:
My family loves banana bread too but I have never done the chocolate swirl ...I love it! I have always froze my bananas when they go kind of brown and then struggled to get the peel off. My trick is to run them under hot water for a few seconds and then the peel (and thready stuff) comes right off. Or you can microwave them and the inner banana pops out like a paste melted.
My recipe is almost the same but I use vanilla instead of the lemon juice. I might try to switch it to see what the difference it.
Thanks for the ideas! Stephanie
P.S. I think you might have put 4 c. sugar instead of 4 c. flour.
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Hi Stephanie! thanks for letting me know about the sugar. I fixed it. And, for all the great tips on peeling a frozen banana!
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Wow. Never thought about putting chocolate in my banana bread. I think I might just try it!
It's so delicious! You should try it!
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