Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375°F. Thoroughly grease and flour a 9" × 5" × 3" baking pan (or use a nonstick baking pan or a flexible silicone pan).

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt and cinnamon.

Unwrap the butter and heat it in the microwave, in a microwave-safe bowl, for about a minute, until it's thoroughly melted. Set it aside at room temperature to cool, but don't let it solidify again.

Peel the bananas. Using a potato masher, mash the bananas in a separate mixing bowl.

Add the vanilla extract to the mashed bananas.

Beat the eggs in a separate bowl and then add the beaten egg to the banana-vanilla mixture.

Pour a tiny bit of the melted butter into the egg-banana-vanilla mixture and stir it in. Repeat 3-4 more times, adding a slightly larger amount of the liquid butter each time until it is all incorporated.

IMPORTANT: Don't add hot melted butter to the egg-banana mixture as the heat from the butter would cook the egg, and that's not what you want to do!

Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones and mix no more than ten seconds. The batter will be visibly lumpy. That's OK! It's extremely important not to overmix the batter, or the resulting bread will be too hard.

Once the liquid and dry ingredients have been combined, gently fold the chocolate chips into the batter.

Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake immediately.