Banana Bread is one of my favourite things to bake. It’s quick and easy to throw together, and a great way to use bananas you forgot about or didn’t get a chance to use. The riper your bananas, the more flavour they will give your bread. I am not a big fan of nuts in banana bread so I love to use dark chocolate chips. If you like nuts, you can substitute them instead of chocolate chips, or use both!

You can also use fun pan shapes like mini-pumpkins, mini-coffins, houses etc.  to suit any type of theme or holiday!

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Banana Bread Coffins

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon each ground nutmeg and salt
1/4 teaspoon cake spice (optional)
3 ripe bananas, mashed
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

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Tools needed to make banana bread.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×5-inch loaf pan with a baking spray.

  1. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cake spice, and salt in a medium sized bowl; set aside.banana-bread-dry-ingredients-2_fotor
  2. In a large bowl mash the bananas with a fork, then combine bananas, eggs, oil, milk and vanilla extract.banana-bread-wet-ingredients_fotor
  3. Add dry ingredients to banana mixture; stir just until moistened. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips; pour into the pan.ld5a0131_fotor  ld5a0135_fotor

     

  4. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  5. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Place bread from pan onto a wire rack. Cool completely.

 

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Makes 10-12 servings.

 

Let me know how yours turned out in the comment section below!