I'm not a fan of coffee but I do enjoy drinking a good Turkish coffee, a espresso or plain coffee and milk with pastries, cake, muffins and my favorite banana bread.
The Turkish coffee and the banana bread are a match made in heaven, since I have an insatiable sweet tooth I have to add chocolate or nuts to the banana bread. Whenever we have "planned ahead" visits I make some banana bread, danish butter or cherry bulls-eye/occhi de bue cookies. More than often people would ask for my banana bread recipe, I dont think there is anything different from others recipes, but I will let you judge that:
Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas (if they are almost black better)
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of brown sugar
2 Tbsp of cocoa for baking
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 Tsp baking powder
1/2 cup of milk
3 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
Optional
1/2 up Chopped nuts/ raisins
Preparation.
Preheat the oven at 350F
Whisk the butter and the sugar together until you have a fluffy cream, add the eggs 1 by 1, slowly add the flour, cocoa and baking powder, keep whisking, add the milk, the vanilla and the raisins/nuts and mix everything. Mash the bananas thoroughly and add them to the mix. Blend well.
Pour the mixture on a 4x8 loaf pan (or 3 small ones like I did). Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
To serve remove form the pan slice and sprinkle some confectioners sugar on top. Enjoy with coffee!!!
3 ripe bananas (if they are almost black better)
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of brown sugar
2 Tbsp of cocoa for baking
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 Tsp baking powder
1/2 cup of milk
3 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
Optional
1/2 up Chopped nuts/ raisins
Preparation.
Preheat the oven at 350F
Whisk the butter and the sugar together until you have a fluffy cream, add the eggs 1 by 1, slowly add the flour, cocoa and baking powder, keep whisking, add the milk, the vanilla and the raisins/nuts and mix everything. Mash the bananas thoroughly and add them to the mix. Blend well.
Pour the mixture on a 4x8 loaf pan (or 3 small ones like I did). Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
To serve remove form the pan slice and sprinkle some confectioners sugar on top. Enjoy with coffee!!!
Thanks for this recipe! As soon as I saw the words 'chocolate', 'bananas' and 'bread', I rushed right over here. lol. Looks like a simple enough recipe. Something even I can do. Wonderful. Peace!
ReplyDeletetwo of my favorite tastes that taste great together.... :D
ReplyDeleteSounds Yummy! Thanks for sharing :)
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Heaven! I love coffee, chocolate and banana bread!! I'll have to try this recipe! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this recipe! Its something I can make for the weekend. My kids simply adore my cooking and they call the kitchen "Mama's Kingdom." :) - Eileen (a.k.a. Aiokona)
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice recipe! We always make banana bread and even put chocolate chips in sometime, but never thought to make Chocolate Banana Bread! Yum!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds delicious, I don't eat many sweets but I LOVE chocolate sometimes. Thanks so much for sharing! I can't wait to try it out!!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such a great combo... coffee and banana bread! I like the idea of sprinkling some confectioner's sugar on top of the sliced bread! Yum!
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