Sunday, September 6, 2009

Banana Walnut Bread w/ Dark Chocolate Chips



Ingredients

  • 3 bananas very ripe (partial or mostly black skins)
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 Tbsp plain yogurt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup agave nectar (see substitution note at bottom)
  • 3 tbl vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup walnuts
  • 1/2 cup bittersweet dark chocolate chips (I love Ghirardelli)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil and flour bread pan.

Mash bananas and set aside

Add both flours to a bowl along with baking soda and salt, whisk. In a seperate bowl mix egg, sugar, agave nectar and oil until well blended.

Combine the flours with the egg mixture, adding yogurt, vanilla extract and mashed bananas.

Fold in 1/4 cup of the walnuts and all the chocolate chips. Pour into pan.
Add remaining walnuts to the top of batter.

Bake for 50 minutes or until a fork inserted into the center comes out clean.
NOTE: If baking muffins add all the walnuts to the batter and bake for 25 minutes, makes 1 dozen. Also agave nectar can be substituted with honey or granulated sugar.