#ovenstruck

[neildresner]

Hoooooooo boy it’s been a good long while since I’ve done one of these, but #Ovenstruck is back with Cerberus’ Triple Chocolate Chip Banana Bread!

Why banana bread, you say? It’s a wink wink, nudge nudge to a certain Passionate Ending CG (caution: risqué image in link). And the three kinds of chocolate chips in this recipe are a shout out to the three heads of Cerb’s aura hound, as well as the trio he makes up with his brothers, Nemean and Orthrus, the Gate Guardians.

Enjoy!

I halved and modified the banana bread recipe my dad always uses, which comes from a relic novelty cookbook from the eighties by the Washington NFL team.

3/4 cup sugar 1/2 stick butter 1 egg 1 cup flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup full fat plain Greek yogurt (it’s important that it is full fat; the bread won’t bake correctly otherwise) 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 banana, mashed 3/4 cup of a mixture of three kinds of chocolate chips (I used milk, dark, and white)

Preheat oven to 350°F

Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside

Mix butter and sugar until combined

Add eggs and mix until combined

In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder

In another bowl, mix the yogurt and baking soda together

Add both the dry and wet mixtures to the butter-sugar-egg mixture and mix until it becomes a batter

Add mashed banana and mix until incorporated

Stir in the chocolate chips by hand

Pour batter into the greased loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (I baked mine for an hour, but I think that was a bit too long -- it’s still good, but I’m lowering the baking time here. Remember, ovens vary greatly!)

The white chocolate chips kind of... disappeared upon baking. They won’t be visible if you use them, but my guess is that they melt into the batter. 

[neildresner]

Like the Astoria: Fate’s Kiss MC, I bake as a hobby/stress reliever, and while thinking of more projects, I had an idea: making things based on Lovestruck routes. I mean… why not?? 

My first recipe was for Medusa, because she made things easy for me by being a known lover of MC’s scones – and because it just felt right to start with AFK since the MC is a baking fiend. Today I am offering some vanilla pomegranate scones upon Medusa’s sapphic altar.

I used this recipe as a base, swapping out the evaporated milk for vanilla Greek yogurt, adding a ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract, and sprinkling vanilla sugar on top instead of regular sugar. I also ended up needing a bit of extra flour to get the dough to stop sticking, maybe a ¼ cup’s worth, probably because I used yogurt instead of milk. In my experience, scones don’t have a ton of flavor on their own, but these taste great with honey! The pomegranate seeds give pleasant little bursts of flavor when you bite into them.

If I made these again, I’d probably use more vanilla extract to try and punch up the vanilla flavor, maybe a full teaspoon or 1 ½. I think they could also stand to be a little sweeter, again likely because of the switch from milk to yogurt, so I’d use a ½ cup sugar instead of 1/3 cup.