Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup butter

  (salted, 1 stick - softened at room temperature)
• 3-4 large bananas

  (overripe)
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tablespoon milk

  (whole milk)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 cup all-purpose flour

  (divided - reserve ¼ cup to coat chocolate chips and nuts)
• ½ cup mini milk chocolate chips
• ½ cup crushed walnuts

  (or your preferred nut variety)

Instructions

• 1 Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C) and butter your loaf pan, line it with
  parchment paper, or coat it with non-stick cooking spray.
• 2 In a large mixing bowl, or the bowl of your stand mixer, cream together the
  butter and sugar. Add the overripe bananas and mash into the creamed butter and
  sugar.
• 3 Add the eggs, milk and vanilla, then mix until combined (wet batter will be very
  lumpy from butter and bananas).
• 4 Add baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and stir into the batter. Then
  add the first portion of divided flour amount (1 ¾ cups) and mix just until the
  flour is incorporated into the lumpy batter.
• 5 In a small ziploc bag, combine the remaining flour portion (¼ cup) with the mini
  milk chocolate chips and crushed walnuts. Shake until well coated, then add to
  the batter and fold in gently to distribute evenly throughout the batter.
• 6 Transfer batter to prepared loaf pan, and bake at 375°F (190°C) for 55-60
  minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean from the center of the
  loaf.
• 7 Remove to a wire cooling rack and allow the banana bread to cool in the loaf pan
  for 5 minutes, before removing from the loaf pan and transferring to the wire
  cooling rack to cool completely.

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