Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This is based on a recipe by Cathy Lowe, which I found on the Food Network website.

Ingredients

• 1.5c flour
  
• 1tsp baking soda
  
• 1.5tsp baking powder
  
• 1tsp salt
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 3/4c sugar
  
• 2 to 3 very ripe bananas - 2 works just fine
  
• 1tsp vanilla
  
• 1/3c vegetable oil
  
• 1tsp cinnamon
  
• ~4oz chocolate chips, or until it looks right
  

Preheat oven to 350. Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and chocolate chips in a bowl. In a separate, larger bowl, cream sugar into eggs with a whisk, and whisk in vanilla and oil. Add the bananas and mash with the whisk or a fork until they're broken down to your tastes. Pour dry into wet and fold together, being careful not to over mix. Pour batter into a greased 5"x9" bread pan and bake for about an hour and ten minutes (check it at an hour and see how it's doing, though), until a toothpick inserted comes out FAIRLY clean. Don't want to over-bake. Take bread out and turn out to cool.

Thoughts: I've made minor variations on this recipe several times, each of them very successful. In the future, it might be nice to try adding some nutmeg, or alternatively adding some blueberries instead of chocolate chips & cinnamon. There are a lot of options.

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