Banana Bread

Banana Bread

Ingredients

2-3 mashed bananas
1/4 cup organic corn oil
1/4 cup soften organic butter (I don't usually use butter but sometimes you just need that flavor)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup rice syrup (not quite full topped off with maple syrup)
1 organic free range egg (again- I don't usually use eggs but nothing else holds things together as well)
3 Tablespoons vanilla soy milk
2-3 Tablespoons turbinado sugar (What's that you ask - look here)
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon aluminum-free baking power (WHY? Here's one reason)
1/2 teaspoon sea salt (fine grain)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 chopped walnuts
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (grain sweetened) (yes, you could use something healthier than chocolate chips but why would you?)

Directions

1.) Preheat oven to 325

2.) grease 8.5 x 4.5 x2 loaf pan

3.) Mash bananas in a large bowl. I use a hand masher because monkeys like to have fun and this is fun!

4.) Add all the other wet ingredients except the egg

5.) taste - YUMMY!

6.) Ok, NOW add the egg

7.) In a separate bowl mix together all the dry ingredients except chocolate chips and walnuts.

8.) Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients s-l-o-w-l-y

9.) Fold in walnuts and chocolate chips

10.) Add in a dozen or so chocolate chips to replace the ones you ate while prepping

11.) Pour batter into prepared pan

12.) bake for 40-45 minutes

13.) Cool in pan on wire rack for 30 minutes

14.) Remove from pan

15.) Give a monkey hoot and let the other monkeys know the Banana Bread is ready!!