I had three spotty organic bananas in the kitchen. Normally we eat bananas really quickly but last week those little guys were left behind. I decided to make my first banana bread. Using a simple recipe for basic banana bread, I spiced things up with white chocolate chips, honey, raisins and rum.
You’ll need:
3-4 mashed bananas (very ripe)
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp honey
2 tbsp rum (I used 10 Cane Rum)
handful of raisins
handful of white chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan or other small dish with butter.
Mash the bananas in a bowl. In a larger separate bowl, mix sugar, oil and eggs until well blended.
Add the bananas to the large bowl and mix well.
Lastly, add all other ingredients (flour, vanilla, salt, baking powder, chocolate chips, raisins, rum, honey, salt). Mix until nice and thick.
Pour batter into your baking dish and bake for one hour. My bread cracked on the top and that is when I knew it was ready. But you should probably take it out before that happens to you. : )
I feel like a lot of the chocolate flavor and most all of the raisins were at the bottom of the bread. I don’t mind that but I wonder how to fix it. Next time I guess I could melt the chocolate first, then mix it in. But that still leaves the raisin issue..
P.S. Yes, it’s November 1st and I put up our Christmas tree. Woohoo!
