I Just Changed Your Life

Posted by Moose on September 24th, 2007. Filed under: Cooking, Recipes.

Unless you don’t like bananas. In which case, I can’t help you.

I’ve been using all my charisma to create a cult of Bill Granger, he who makes lobster sandwiches seem a perfectly reasonable lunch plan. By “all my charisma” I mean “shoving my cookbooks into the hands of any who enter my kitchen and shrieking ‘YOU MUST BUY THIS!’” Once you taste this banana bread, you will be a convert. You will run up to me on the street and shake me, shrieking “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?” (We do a lot of shrieking in the cult of Bill Granger. This is no reflection on Bill himself.) And then you will offer me some banana bread. And I will accept.

Choc Banana Bread

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 1/2 oz unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
4 ripe bananas, mashed
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup good-quality dark or milk chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 7 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.

Sift the flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Mix the butter, sugar, banana, eggs, vanilla extract and chocolate chips in a separate bowl. Add to the dry ingredients and stir to combine, being careful not to overmix. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until the bread is cooked when tested with a skewer. Leave to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.

Serve in thick slices with butter. (The key words there are “thick” and “butter”.)

9 Responses to I Just Changed Your Life

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  2. kerflop

    Darn this banana allergy. (Seriously, is that not weird? They make my mouth and throat itch and swell until I sound like I’m talking with my head stuck in a bowl of jello.)

  3. norabarnacle

    The only good that can come from a non-crunchy ‘nana is banana bread! And chocolate banana bread, at that! YUM!!!

    When you make this for me, go for the dark chocolate…See how presumptuous I am? When YOU make this for ME…Ha ha ha!

  4. Jhianna

    Kerflop: I have the same thing, but it doesn`t cause me problems when the bananas are cooked. I am going to have to try this recipe, Moose thanks!

    Oh, and thank you very much! Now I`m coveting the sidebar thingy too. *sigh*

  5. mcgee

    i will totally make this TONIGHT. or, whenever i get a chance to buy bananas. i love bananas and i love chocolate so this is a no brainer for me. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR SAVING MY SOUL.

  6. Amanda

    hmm this sounds like cooking, i don’t remember how to do that…can you send me a frozen batch to heat up?

  7. Schnozz

    It takes a serious endorsement to prompt me to forgive a man for not using an apostrophe when he SURELY KNOWS BETTER.

    But it’s in the mail, just because of you. See? You’re a life-changer.

  8. another Amanda

    whoa, you DID change my life! that stuff is delicious! and easy!

    but then I brought some to work to share with people… and no one had any. they usually go crazy for my cookies. WTF? so I brought it back home with me. MINE NOW, IDIOTS.

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