Banana Bread

There was a lady in my husband's office who used to make Banana bread and sell each slice for a dollar as charity every Tuesday. My husband got it for me a few Tuesday's and I fell in love with it. The texture, the taste, it was just awesome. I kept on thinking how could someone make something that great at home. So with my search for this delicacy started. And I got it!! I got 2-3 ways of making a banana bread. I combined what I liked from each of them and what i had liked in that lady's banana bread. I tried it and voila!! I was so happy with the result. Since then I have been making it the same way and everyone who has it it likes it. So here it goes. Ok before we start one thing you should know about is the riper the bananas the better the bread. You know the point at which the banana becomes so ripe that u feel like throwing it. That's the kind of banana you need (although it is not that bad with less riper bananas). So when you get lots of bananas and they all ripe together and you donno what to do of them you can make this bread.

Special Item required - Loaf pan

Ingredients

2 cups - All purpose flour

3/4 cup - Sugar

3/4 cup walnuts

1/4 cup chocolate chips (preferably dark)

1/2 cup butter (unsalted)

3 bananas

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp cinnamon powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 pinch salt (If you are using salted butter do not add salt)

Preparation

You need two bowls a bigger one to mix the dry ingredients and a smaller one to mix the wet ingredients

Ok so now lets get started

1. Roast the walnuts at 350 F for less than 10 min. Leave the oven at that temp while you preapre the mixes

2. Now in a large bowl mix all the dry ingredients together. Flour, sugar, roasted walnut (broken into small pieces), cinnamon powder, baking soda, baking powder, and chocolate chips. Keep this aside.

3. In another bowl mix the wet ingredients. Usually we put the eggs first. But if you don't want your bowl to smell of eggs u can add that later as we do not need to beat the eggs in this. Ok so add the butter (melted and cooled), the bananas (mashed), eggs and the vanilla extract. Mix it well .

4 Now lightly fold the wet mix into the dry mix. Do not beat it. or mix it too much. the result should be a lumpy mixture. if you mix it too much the banana bread will become rubbery.

5 grease your loaf pan and pour the mixture into the pan

6. Bake it at 350 for about 55 to 60 min. Insert a toothpick on the middle of the bread to check if it is done. If the toothpick comes out clean the bread is done.