Winter Recipes: GeekChic’s Coconut Chocolate Chip Nutella Banana Bread
When banana’s start to overripe, make banana bread! Hunting around my cupboards, I found I had remnants of ingredients that might spice up a boring banana bread recipe. Thus, a delicious mouthful was born.
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
3 medium overripe bananas
2 1/2 tbs half n’ half
1/2 cup & 2 tbs butter
1 cup & 2 tbs sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
2/3 cup toasted coconut
1/2 cup nutella
To toast coconut: spread on a cookie sheet and bake at 250 until brown.
Preheat oven to 350. In a medium mixing bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt.
In a small bowl, mash together bananas and half n’ half.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla, followed by the banana mixture. Add in the flour mixture slowly, until just combined. Fold in nutella, coconut and chocolate chips.
Grease a 9-inch loaf pan and pour in batter. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
If making in muffin form, fill cups halfway and bake for 30 minutes.
Allow to cool for 20 minutes before removing and slicing to serve.