SK week 37 | Marbled Banana Bread

I love banana bread, and I love having a variety of recipes to go to when I have bananas getting brown on my counter. This was a new one that will definitely be in the regular rotation now!

(Here's the Smitten Kitchen post)

You'll need:
3 large very ripe bananas
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup plus 1/4 cup flour (I used GF)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan. Melt butter in large glass bowl.

Add peeled bananas directly to melted butter.

Mash them and mix into butter.

Add brown sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda, and salt.

Whisk all of that together.

Add one cup of the flour.

Stir until just combined.

Pour half of batter into a second bowl. As evenly as you can. :)

To one bowl, add the 1/4 cup flour and the cinnamon. To the second bowl, add the cocoa powder and chocolate chips.

Stir those up!

Alternate spoonfuls of each batter into the greased pan.

Then swirl with a butter knife. But not too much. Bake at 350 for 55 to 65 minutes (55 was good for mine).

Let it rest in the pan before cooling completely on a cooling rack.

Then slice in and enjoy!

Verdict: Winner! I love both regular and chocolate banana bread, but sometime the chocolate one can be too rich. This was a perfect solution! Everyone loved it. :)