I have mad envy for people who can cook. I mean, yeah, I can make stuff and not give myself food poisoning, but I'm not very creative at cooking, I'm not very adventurous and I'm not very good at it. I have a few dishes I make on a regular basis, but that's about it. But I'm getting the itch to try and teach myself some things. And I've had an itch to bake. The other night I did a google search in hopes of finding something that sounded tasty and involved chocolate. After a little looking, I came across a recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bread at this website. So, in the spirit of some of the people I adore (Diane, Laura, Sandy, too many others to list), I'm going to show you what I did.
These are the ingredients you'll need to make the bread:
2 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed (or more, to taste)
1T baking powder
3/4t salt
1/2t cinnamon
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 large)
1 cup skim milk
3/4 cup creamy natural peanut butter w/ salt
1t vanilla extract
1/4 cup egg substitute (or 1 egg)
100g (3.5 oz) dark chocolate, chopped into small chunks
Oh, and one beer.
Mix all the dry ingredients (except the chocolate) together in a large bowl.
Take a swig.
Likewise, mix all the wet ingredients together in a large bowl.
Take a swig.
Pour the wet stuff into the dry stuff.
Take a swig.
Mix it all together.
Take a swig.
Add the chocolate. (The recipe, I felt, didn't call for enough chocolate, so I upped it. Instead of using a chocolate bar and breaking it into small pieces, I bought a bag of dark chocolate chips and I used half the bag. I love chocolate!)
Take a swig.
Mix the chocolate in.
Take a swig.
Grease and flour up two 9X5 inch cake pans. I bought a couple of aluminum ones. The recipe makes two loaves and I only had one proper glass pan.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees. They'll be ready if you can stick a toothpick in and it comes out clean. This will be your end result.
Open another bottle to celebrate.
I have to tell you, the bread came out really good. It's not as peanut buttery as I was hoping for, but it's tasty nonetheless. Next time I might try upping the amount of peanut butter, or instead add peanut butter chips with the chocolate chips.
2 comments:
But the important question is: how was the beer?
Oooh...the word verification generated this word, which I am now claiming as my own: fabylla!
fabylla (adj.) Fabulous to the extreme; more wonderful than even chocolate chip cookies. "That party was so off the hook, it was fabylla!"
You could increase the amount of beer... ;)
I cook the same way with wine.
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