Today was my daughter’s 4th birthday! It was such a fun day since I asked her what she wanted to do and then we tried to fit it all in! We went to IHOP in our pajamas, ate lunch at the pool (picnic lunch!) and then out to dinner at her favorite restaurant. Oh we also made a cake too. I was really loving all the ideas she came up with this year. I couldn’t help but think how different this year was than all the birthdays past since this year she really had an opinion about it. Happy birthday my sweet baby girl!
However, I made this recipe below a few days ago. (It’s all gone now; it doesn’t ever last long!) But I made it into a bread loaf instead. We went over to my cousin’s house and brought this as a dessert… it did not disappoint! I made a few changes to my original banana chocolate chip muffin recipe based on what I had and what I thought sounded good. Here are my changes in the revisited version:
Banana Chocolate-Chip Bread
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup greek yogurt, honey flavored
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup flaxseed meal
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup mashed banana (usually 2 meduim size)
- 1 cup dark chocolate morsels
- 1 tsp vanilla
*Revisited! I used a honey-sweetened yogurt so I lessened the amount of sugar and just replaced it instead of the sour cream in the original recipe. Also, dark chocolate morsels instead of semi-sweet chips were used. (I had a friend so ingeniously suggest m&m’s as well! Gotta try that next!)
** Note about the bananas, I like the kind that are a day or two overripe. So lots of brown spots! Not like the perfect, pretty yellow ones in the background.
*** Another note! (Last one, I promise!) The butter softens so much faster (less than 20 minutes) when left out all cut up like that. I usually warm up the plate with water in the microwave and then cut it up on the plate and leave it out. So much easier than remember an hour before I want to bake with it!
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir yogurt and soda together in a small bowl and set aside. (I had my special helper do that, so helpful!)
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Make sure butter is really soft and room temperature when doing this step. * See above note!
Add egg, beating well.
Beat in sour cream yogurt mixture.
Stir in remaining ingredients. (Trust me, they are all in there, my helper just dumped them all in.) Don’t over mix it!
Eat a few extras.
Spoon into greased muffin pans loaf pan. (I used the butter wrapper with my pan, I love that thing!)
Bake for 18-22 44-48 minutes. It will be down when golden brown and toothpick comes out clean. Let cool 15 minutes or so before removing from pan. Slice when just warm to the touch.
- ¼ cup greek yogurt, honey flavored
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1½ cup flour
- ¼ cup flaxseed meal
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup mashed banana (usually 2 meduim size)
- 1 cup dark chocolate morsels
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir yogurt and soda together in a small bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Make sure butter is soft and room temperature.
- Add egg, beating well.
- Beat in yogurt mixture.
- Stir in remaining ingredients. Do not overmix.
- Pour into greased loaf pan.
- Bake for 44-48 minutes. It will be done when golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
- Slice and enjoy!
Please let me know what you thought of the Banana Chocolate-Chip Bread! I would love to hear from you! These little people enjoyed it alright!
Also, it cracks me up the difference between Harper in the original post, and the older Harper! Thankfully, she still loves to help me bake!