Cookery Monday - Banana & Chocolate Bread

I took one look at our banana's today and knew that Cookery Monday had to be a banana bread!

Thought I'd try something new and go for a banana AND chocolate bread

We started off by measuring out the butter.  

We ran out and ended up 1 oz short!  :S

Mush away

 While Quinn was mushing I quickly mixed together the 

sugar & butter and then added the eggs & vanilla essence.

Then it was time to pour the mush into the batter

We gave it a good mix and added the flours.  The recipe called for 2 cups of 

plain flour, unfortunately my cupboard held almost every kind of flour but,

so I improvised and added 1 cup whole wheat bread flour and 1 cup

whole wheat self raising flour.  No idea if this is going to work.... 

but worth a try.

Next came the exciting job of adding the chocolate - was supposed

to be chocolate chips, but since I had none, again we improvised and used

up some of the Christmas chocolate stash.

 Then we poured our mixture into a greased & floured tin 

Popped it in the over at 180 degrees for one hour.  It was supposed 

to be covered with foil for the first 30 mins, but going with the

theme of today's cooking session - we didn't have any!  :S  So

I popped a tray on a shelf above the bread to give it some protection

in the oven.  And... it seemed to work ok

Here's our result!

I popped out this evening for some wonderful fellowship and

so did not get a pic of the boys taste testing, but I had a taste when I got home

and have to say - a BIG thumbs up!  Was really yummy!  :O)

If you would like the original, un-improvised recipe:

CLICK HERE