Banana Bread

So my boyfriend and I made this together. He is a wonderful baking partner thanks to the fact that his sister is a huge bake as well. It seems that I have competition. [But not really.] He had been wanting to make banana bread for the longest time and after we had returned home from camping discovered that our bananas went black and gross and were definitely not good for doing anything with other than throwing in the garbage.

So we ended up trying again later and we made some pretty good banana bread. It can sometimes be too dry but this was just perfect. We made a regular loaf and a chocolate chip loaf which was to die for. Actually... I could totally go for some right now...

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 cups of sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs [beaten]

3 ripe bananas, smashed [about 1 cup]

1/4 cup milk

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

chopped pecans or walnuts

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan with butter or Pam cooking spray and flour the pans.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the vanilla and eggs and continue to mix together.

Combine the dry ingredients and add alternately with the bananas and milk.

Add the chocolate chips to the batter if you want chocolate chip banana bread and add nuts if you desire.