Recipe: Banana Chocolate Chip Breads

These banana breads will be gifts for Christmas.  Chocolate chips add to the flavor and red and green sugar gives each bread a festive look.

Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
(printable recipe)
Ingredients:

1 cup shortening ( 2 sticks butter)

3  1.2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

2 tsps. baking soda

4 eggs

1 tsp. salt

2 tsp. lemon juice

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1-2 cups chocolate bits (optional)

2 cups mashed bananas  (The older the bananas, the better)

Directions:

Cream shortening and sugar in mixer. Add eggs. Add lemon juice to mashed bananas and stir into creamed mixture. Sift together dry ingredients. (I stir with a whisk) Add with nuts and chocolate bits to first mixture. Pour into well greased loaf pan or muffin tins which have been dusted with flour and bake at 325' for 1 hour or until done. About 30 mins. for muffins. ( I bake at 350')

Note: Using an ice cream scoop to dole out the batter makes for a uniform batch of muffins. You can also sprinkle sugar on top of the muffins or loaf before baking.

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