At home, my favorite pastime is baking. It’s how I relieve stress, show love to the people I care about, and treat myself to something delicious. My all-time favorite thing to make is banana bread. It is truly a fool-proof baked good: just mash everything up in a bowl, put it in the oven, and it’s done! At school, where the kitchen situation is less than ideal, I don’t often have the ability or resources to whip up a quick baked good. So today, I am going to fill my baking needs with the next best option: sharing my banana bread recipe with y’all. In all honesty, this is the receipt my mom has used since I was a kid, but it is very likely that she found this recipe online (I just don’t know where). Nonetheless, this banana bread remains the best that I have ever tried, and I am excited to share it with y’all!
Ingredients:
- 3 ripe bananas, well mashed
- 1 cup sugar or Splenda
- 2 eggs, beaten
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups flour (white or wheat)
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- 12 oz. bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups walnuts, chopped and lightly toasted
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Add the mashed bananas, sugar, eggs, and oil to a large mixing bowl and mix well
- Sift the dry ingredients together
- Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients
- Stir in the chocolate chips
- Pour the batter into a 5×9 nonstick loaf pan
- Completely cover the top of the batter with chopped walnuts
- Bake for 1 hour or until inserted toothpick comes out clean