Food Friday: Third and Final Post about Chocolate Banana Bread!

 On April 20, 2021 I posted this recipe:

Chocolate Banana Bread

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour leveled with a knife
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 stick salted butter at room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cup mashed bananas approximately 4 very ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

This is, of course, just the ingredients but you can go back to April for the directions if you want to make it.

This week I made the bread again.  I doubled the batch because I had that many bananas needing to be used up.  Poor planning on the grocery shopping, I guess.  OR incorrect expectations about how many bananas we would eat in a given amount of time. I need to get it together.  This week I have used up a lot of food from the refrigerator and hope only to buy onions until the rest is used up and the refrigerator is empty. At least mostly empty.  But I digress as Dear Myrtle Your Friend in Genealogy is wont to say!  I love her.  She is so helpful.

Anyway, I have decided I will not make this recipe again.  Don't get me wrong, it does taste nice.  The problem is that I have not figured out how to get it out of the pans in good shape. I think it is too soft.  I have a good mind to try some regular banana bread and see what happens using the same pans.  Maybe.

The first loaf broke coming out of the pan.  The second loaf (in the bottom side up pan) also broke.  The silicon pan loaf sunk like a stone even though the loaves cooked for more than the allotted time...though as I am writing, I am thinking that with three loaves in the oven I should have added even more time.

This is the chocolate banana bread in a bowl.  It is more like a pudding, it is that soft.  Well, like what I remember our mother calling "cottage pudding" over which she put a sauce, often a boiled cider sauce and sometimes a lemon sauce.  That might have been nice.  Maybe even a greater guilding of the lily by making a chocolate sauce...?  No, that would have been just nasty.

Anyway, last time on the chocolate banana bread here.  It does taste good.  Just not sturdy enough for me.  I was able to give away most of it which was a real blessing.