Whole Wheat Banana and Chocolate Chip Bread
- 1/4 cup butter, unsalted cut into small chunks
- 4 each bananas finely crushed
- 1/4 cup olive oil light, or grape seeds oil
- 23 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour white whole wheat or regular whole wheat
- 1/4 cup flour, all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips semi-sweet or bitter-sweet
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C) F, butter and flour a loaf pan, and set aside.
- In large bowl, add butter and both whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour.
- Rub butter with your fingers through flours until crumbly.
- Or you can do it in a food professor.
- Add baking soda and salt, and mix until well combined.
- In another medium bowl, mash bananas with back of fork.
- Add oil, brown sugar, and eggs, and whisk until well mixed.
- Pour wet ingredients into flour mixture, and stir until just moistened.
- Stir in chocolate chips until just incorporated.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour, until top is golden-brown, and a wooden skewer inserted center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and let bread cool in pan on wire rack for about 20 minutes.
- Remove bread from loaf pan and cool completely on wire rack.
- Note: Banana bread can be sliced into slices, put into zip-lock bag or air-tight container, keep for at least 1 month in freezer or up to 1 week in fridge.
butter, bananas, olive oil light, brown sugar, eggs, whole wheat flour, flour, baking soda, salt, vanilla, chocolate chips semisweet
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/whole-wheat-banana-chocolate-ch-54803 (may not work)