Decadent chocolate version:

Ingredients:
- 125g butter (room-temp)
- 250g caster sugar
- 4 very, very ripe bananas (they should be almost all black)
- 1 cup broken walnut pieces
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 100g dark chocolate
- 250g flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder

To cook:
- Cream the butter and sugar together. Add bananas, eggs, vanilla and mix well.
- Break the chocolate into small chunks and toss in, along with the nuts.
- Mix flour and baking powder together, then add. Don't over mix!
- Pour into a 19x11cm loaf pan and bake at 180°C for about an hour and fifteen minutes.
- Let cool in the pan, then tip out.

Serve warm, maybe with vanilla ice cream. Sprinkle with rum while still warm?

The crunchy bits on top are pure heaven.

This was George's recipe (He was a really good baker)

* 1/2 cup Crisco
* 1 cup sugar
* 2 eggs, lightly beaten
* 1 1/4 cup banana pulp
* 1/2 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1/4 tsp salt (do not leave this out!)
* 1/2 tsp good vanilla extract


Preheat oven to 350 Degrees

Mix ingredients in the order given, beating until it's a smooth-ish batter (with some lumps where the nuts are) and pour into a greased loaf pan.

Bake for 1 hour

Nom.

BOP posting as elizard cuz I'm too lazy to log out and then back in again.

OMG, didn't you search for my previous post?

*neglected*

And here's my AskMe on what wine to serve with it!

Here's a hint from Mrs. Doohickie: adding 1/2 chopped granny smith apple per loaf helps keep the bread moist, taste better, and keeps it fresh longer.