• We gave you fluffy banana bread. And now we present you with chocolate chip banana bread! 

    Chocolate chip banana bread

    Serves: Makes 1 loaf

    Ingredients

    • 210g (1½ cups) cake flour
    • 110g (½ cup) sugar
    • 5ml baking powder
    • 2ml bicarbonate of soda
    • 2ml salt
    • 60ml (¼ cup) oil
    • 5ml Staffords Vanilla Extract with Seeds
    • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
    • 3 ripe bananas, mashed
    • 170g (1 cup) Staffords Choc Chips
    • TO DECORATE

    • 50g Staffords White Choc Disks, melted

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 175°C. Grease a medium loaf tin.

    2

    Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a mixing bowl.

    3

    Lightly whisk the oil, vanilla extract with seeds and eggs together. Stir in the bananas and pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.

    4

    Add the chocolate chips and very gently stir the mixture together, being careful not to overmix.

    5

    Pour the batter into the prepared tin. Bake in the oven for 35 – 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

    6

    Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, before turning out onto a cooling rack.

    7

    Spoon the melted white chocolate into a piping bag and pipe zig-zags across the top of the banana bread.

    8

    Set aside for 20 minutes to allow the chocolate to set, before serving in slices.

    Imka Webb
    Author

    Imka Webb is a freelance digital marketing expert and the digital editor of Food & Home Entertaining magazine.  www.imkawebb.com