Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

• Serves: makes 1 loaf
• Prep Time: 15 min
• Total Time: 1 hour 15 min

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 Bananas- Brown and nasty is perfect
• 1 cup Sugar- maybe a little more
• 1 stick Butter - melted
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips- ok... maybe a little more....

Instructions

Grease a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. If you want to hedge your bets, cut a piece of parchment paper to fit in the bottom of the pan. Spray it.
Heat oven to 350 degrees

Put the bananas (the insides, not the peel) and the sugar in a mixing bowl. Mix on HIGH for a few minutes. Add the melted, cooled butter, eggs, and the vanilla. Mix it up, scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Add baking soda and flour, combine.
Add chocolate chips, mix it all up.

Scrape the dough into the loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour, until browned on top, and a toothpick stuck in it comes out clean.
Let the pan cool on a rack for 20 minutes or so.
Turn out onto rack to cool completely.
Slice and eat

Got to tell you, this one makes the house smell great, and tastes wonderful warm.