Chocolate Chip Toffee Banana Bread

Chocolate Chip Toffee Banana Bread kicks up a standard banana loaf recipe by including a great deal of chocolate and toffee chips. Good made into muffins, too, for a seize and go breakfast or snack. It’s possible you’ll by no means return to plain ol’ banana bread once more!

This recipe is from the newly launched cookbook, The Weekday Lunches & Breakfasts Cookbook: Straightforward & Scrumptious House-Cooked Meals for Busy Households, by my buddy, Mary Younkin.

Why You Should Make

• For those who’re a fan of toffee, you’ll love this banana bread!
• Banana bread makes an awesome present for a brand new neighbor, mother and father with a new child, or as a hostess present.
• It freezes effectively, so you may bake a few loaves and save one for later.

My beautiful, kind-hearted blogger buddy, Mary Younkin, creator of the weblog, Barefeet within the Kitchen, simply revealed her second terrific, family-friendly cookbook,The Weekday Lunches & Breakfasts Cookbook.

It’s a comply with as much as Mary’s widespread The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook]The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook: Easy Household-Pleasant Recipes for On a regular basis House Cooking. Take a look at the Lemon  Curd Mini Cheesecakes I created from that great cookbook in 2016.

I’ve a slight habit to something “toffee,” so once I noticed her chocolate chip toffee banana bread, I knew I’d need to bake up a few loaves. The choosy daughter noticed the bananas come out of the freezer and will hardly wait to have a slice! Stuffed with melty chocolate chips and toffee bits, it was banana bread on steroids. The end result was one wonderful banana bread!

Recipe Ideas

• When making fast breads or soda breads like this banana bread, you don’t wish to overmix. Use a picket spoon or rubber spatula to keep away from working air into the batter.
• PRO-Tip: Ensure to grease and flour your baking pan. You should utilize butter or shortening after which mud with flour or use a product like Pam Baking Spray with Flour for a straightforward choice.
• The baking soda a lot be mixed with an acidic ingredient with a view to produce the gasoline that may assist the bread rise. On this case, buttermilk offers the required acid.
• PRO-Tip: Cool your bread on a rack for about 10 minutes earlier than eradicating it from the pan. This enables the perimeters to agency up and provides the loaf extra stability than in the event you attempt to launch it when it’s sizzling out of the oven.

Freezing Bananas for Banana Bread

I used to toss ripe bananas, peels and all, right into a gallon Ziploc bag to freeze. It could be months later that longing for banana bread or hummingbird cake arises. I had heard that peeling them first was essentially the most environment friendly technique to freeze bananas, however my approach all the time labored, so why change it?

Nicely, freezing within the peels all the time labored for me, till this time. When peeling these frozen numbers, the outer peel break up from an internal layer. I needed to resort to scraping that residual peel off the ice-cold, gentle and oozy bananas. Ugh. So, after right this moment, I will probably be peeling my ripe bananas earlier than freezing them. It’s the right technique to be prepared for these banana bread cravings.

The Weekday Lunches & Breakfasts Cookbook: Straightforward & Scrumptious House-Cooked Meals for Busy Households

I’m really caught in a rut relating to breakfast and lunches. So this cookbook arrived at my doorstep simply within the nick of time.

I undoubtedly have a couple of favorites, however when I’m busy testing out new dinner and dessert recipes, the opposite meals get ignored. Thank goodness for this terrific cookbook! Mary’s tempting Spinach Couscous Salad with Hen and Cranberries is up subsequent for my post-Easter weekday lunches. To shake up my breakfast routine, her Savory French Toast Bake with ham, Swiss cheese, and asparagus will make for a cheerful hubby and equally glad and glad cook dinner.

I can’t ignore desserts so, the Good-Each-Time-Brownies will probably be on our dessert menu quickly—wealthy and fudgy, I do know the household will approve. Don’t overlook to take a look at The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook: Easy Household-Pleasant Recipes for On a regular basis House Cooking (amazon hyperlink on the prime of the web page), one other winner!

For extra family-friendly recipes, take a look at Mary’s great weblog, Barefeet within the Kitchen and her social media websites: Weblog – Fb – Twitter – Instagram – Pinterest. And in the event you love toffee as a lot as I do attempt these Chewy Oatmeal Toffee Cookies, too.