Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

Who doesn't like banana bread? People who don't like bananas I guess. It's a pretty ubiquitous quick bread, available in most coffee and tea shops. I took this recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction website, but I'm baking at a cottage with a few limitations...no mixer, other than myself, and an oven with which I am unfamiliar. So, it is what it is.

I have included here for your viewing pleasure a link to an iconic banana interview from 2013 with Muneori Kawasaki, a Blue Jays infielder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdGai72Tt8Y

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 large eggs (mine were absolutely mammoth, with double yolks)
• 1.5 cups of mashed bananas
• 1/3 cup Greek yogurt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Methods:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. 

Combine the flour. baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a bowl. In a second bowl combine the butter, sugar, eggs, bananas, yogurt and vanilla. Like I said, I didn't have an electric mixer, so I just used a spatula to mix the dry ingredients with the wet. Finally, fold the chocolate chips into the mixed batter.

I oiled and floured a loaf pan to try to make it less stickable, then spooned in the batter and hoped for the best. The cake baked for 65 minutes. Test for doneness with a toothpick or knife blade to ensure the batter is fully baked.