Chocolate-Chip Banana Bread

Imagine this… early morning before the sun rises you wake up to start your day, you brew up your favorite coffee, and then you slice into a moist tasty piece of chocolate-chip banana bread.  Now you ask yourself should you warm it up in the microwave or eat it plain.  The answer is it won’t matter it’s so smooth and tasty you can’t go wrong.  What you should be asking yourself is 1 piece or 2?

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 cup mashed fully ripe bananas (about 3)

1 cup reduced fat sour cream

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2-1/4 cups whole wheat flour

1-1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions

1.    Heat oven to 350ºF. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with mixer until well blended. Add bananas, sour cream and eggs; mix well. Add combined dry ingredients; mix until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips.

2.    Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan and dust greased pan with a sugar-cinnamon grinder or use a teaspoon of brown sugar and cinnamon blended together to dust the pan.

3.    Pour the banana mixture into the greased and dusted 9x5-inch loaf pan. Sprinkle an additional teaspoon of brown sugar on the top of the bread.

4.    Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 min.; spread light butter over the top of the bread and then serve.

 Refrigerate leftovers.

If you are not a banana bread lover hold on this bread will change the way you think about the whole idea!  It has an excellent taste and the texture is just right!  It is simple quick and tasty.  Very moist and it comes out perfect everytime. 

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