Michael Hardcastle's Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar

• 1 sick of unsalted butter (melted)

• 2 eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 3 overripe bananas

• 2 cups flour

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 tsp salt

  
  

Optional Ingredients for a chocloate version

• 1 cup chocolate chips

• 1/4 cup cocoa powder

  
  

Optional Ingredients for a cinnamon swirl

• 1/4 cup white sugar

• 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a loaf pan or line it with parchement paper.

2. Mix 1 cup of white sugar with 1 sitck of melted butter until smooth.

3. Mix in 2 eggs and 1 tsp of vanilla

4. Mix in three mashed overripebananas

5. Separately, stir together 2 cups of flour, 1 tsp baking soda, and 1/2 tsp salt. Then add dry ingredients to the wet ingredient bowl and stir.

6. Pour into loaf pan and bake for 1 hour.

To make it chocolatey

1. Mix in 1/4 cup cocoa powder during step 5. Add 1 cup chocolate chips to the final mixture. (I like to add the chocolate chips but omit the cocoa powder.)

To make the cinnamon swirl

1. Mix 1/4 cp white sugar with 1 tsp cinnamon.

2. Pour half of the banana bread batter into the loaf pan.

3. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar mix over the batter.

4. Pour in the rest of the banana bread batter.

5. Sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar mix.

6. To make it extra cinnamony you can mix in some cinnamon to the flour mixture in step 5 above.