One day, Nikki grew up and her taste buds changed. Suddenly all sorts of food that she did not like before started tasting wonderful. It was like magic!
Nikki met Mr. Banana one day on her way to make a smoothie.
Mr. Banana said, "You should take me with you because I love smoothies!"
"But, while I think you're beautiful, I really don't like bananas."
"Just give me a try, just this once. If it doesn't work out, we'll never have to see each other again!"
So Nikki took Mr. Banana and added him to her smoothie. Sure enough, the end result was a symphony in her mouth. She loved it so much that Mr. Banana became a regular in her smoothies and soon thereafter he became her egg replacer of choice for baking.
Nikki quickly became a little too obsessed and accumulated two dozen bananas. "How am I going to eat ALL of these?" she wondered out loud. Suddenly it hit her!
Banana Bread!
And with all of those bananas there were enough for not one, not two, but three whole loaves!
Banana Chocolate Chimp Bread (courtesy of Sticky Fingers Bakery as published in VegNews in their Oct 06 issue)
1/3 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 medium ripe mashed bananas
1/2 cup soy or rice milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup of chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350. Cream margarine and sugar, mix in flour, baking soda and baking powder. Add bananas, soymilk and vanilla. Mix until batter is moist and sticky. Fold in chocolate chips.
Pour batter into greased loaf pan and bake for about 50 minutes or until top is brown (or passes toothpick test).
This recipe is great. It is very easily adapted to any filling you might want to substitute for the chocolate chips, and is good on its own too. I happened to make one with the chocolate chips, one with pineapple chunks, coconut and sunflower seeds (a tropical banana bread!) and a plain one with a bit of cinnamon, nutmeg and quince butter for added spice.
17 comments:
Ooh, banana bread. I wish I had some bananas laying around right now. I only have one.
Haha, love the stories lately. That tropical banana bread sounds awesome! Hmm.. I DO have three bananas in my food drawer...
What a cute story :) I love posts in story form. I liked the last one very much by the way :)
Mmmmmm Banana bread... I haven't had that in foreeever... yum yum yum... My mom used to make batches of Banana cake at a time... she could make 12 8" round banana cakes in one day sometimes and freeze them for whenever. I used to love the stuff. Banana bread however I've only really had once... :)
Thanks for posting the recipe :)
Oh! I'm so happy you posted the recipe for the Banana "Chimp" bread! Lol! Cute story too! I'm glad you gave in the the lure of the banana, because you've led us this this recipe, and all the great variations of it too! I love the coconut, pineapple, sunflower seed one!! :P
They all look great!!
love the stories ! i will be reading your past post, like being without internet service so long i musr read a lot !
love the bread, thanks for share the recipe too!
Bananas and chocolate are a total power combo!
Looks delicious! I really like the idea of the tropical banana bread. Must try!
Wow, I'm so glad I have some bananas sitting on my counter. This bread looks great!
wow thats a lot of banana bread! all looks delish!...
cute story too!
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Thanks for the info!! :)
betty does great work - congrats! & your river walk looks very much like ours. looky at all that delicious bread.
i never liked bananas either. Today a co-worker made a banana + tahitian vanilla smoothie. I'm in love! I still can't eat just a plain ol' banana by itself though.
JENNA
Banana bread is so moist and good and tasty and pretty and.....
And why is it so good with chocolate chips!!! Although your tropical variety sounds extremely delish as well. Nice work!
you're so cute wiht your stories!
I didn't like bananas growing up either. I would each just about anything, but not bananas. Now I'll eat them and put them in smoothies as long as they are not too ripe.
Your walk with Sam was really cute. He is adorable!
Sin City restaurant recomendations - in the shopping mall between Mandalay Bay and the Luxor there is a burger place that has two different veggie burgers that were very good.
Mmmmm! That looks fabulous!!!
What a sweet story! :) And the bread looks great. Mr. Banana must be proud of you!
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