OK Georgie, so we're going to turn this into this get ready. Hi Bold Bakers! Wait, he's
not Gemma. Now Gemma has hosted more than 500 episodes of Bigger Bolder Baking and I
thought she needed a break. And I've learned a thing or two after producing so many episodes. So I'm
here today to show you an amazing new recipe and I've got a pretty amazing cohost to
help me out. So George is only starting to eat solid foods and bananas are his favorite. So we're
going to take one of his favourites and combine it with one of my favourites chocolate
and show you how to make a chocolate chip banana bread that's incredible. But wait,
we're going to show you how to bake it two ways, and one of those methods is in less
than 10 minutes. So we're going to start out in a large bowl. You want to add in some
flour, sugar, a little baking powder, some salt, and cinnamon. So do you like my spoons?
Gemma wouldn't let me use hers, so now I have my own BBB ones. Now you just want to mix all
of these together, especially to get the raising agent the baking powder mixed up really
well with all the other ingredients. OK, that's looking really good, now you may
have noticed we already lost our cohost. George needed to take a nap. Now we want to move
on to our wet ingredients. So move your dry ingredients to the side and you're going
to want a nice Big Bowl for this next step. OK, now from the star of the show, the bananas.
Now you're going to want about 3 medium sized bananas. Now question is what's a medium sized
banana? The easiest way to tell is to be able to weigh this on a gram scale, and you can
do that if you have one, but otherwise you know about this size. You know you can eyeball and
it'll be OK. Now, as always, you can find the full written recipe on biggerbolderbaking.com.
And here's the thing. If you haven't been over there, you can watch the video, see all
sorts of bonus tips, see the written recipe right there that includes all of the ingredient
measurements, so make sure you go over there and check it out. Now you just want to add
these to your bowl and mash them up really well. Now you want to make sure that these
bananas are nice and ripe because they're going to mash up a whole lot better. Now I'm
using a fork here and I'm sure there's better techniques. Wanna get them nice and squished
up. OK, that's nice and mashed. Now we're going to add in our egg, our flavorless oil
and some vanilla extract for flavor. And then just whisk or mix them all together. Now I
know what some of you were going to ask, Kevin, can you substitute the egg? Yes, you can use
a flax egg or you can use applesauce. You can find all of that in our egg substitutes
chart on biggerbolderbaking.com. Now you just want to bring back in your dry ingredients
and we've got one more ingredient we have to add to that dry mix...chocolate. Now here
I have the other star of the show, my favorite, the chocolate chips. And you'll want to use
a nice semisweet chocolate, just something that has a little bit of bite, a little bit
of flavor, but feel free to use one of your favourites. And yes, you could have mixed in the chocolate
chips to the dry ingredients earlier, but I wanted to give the star a moment of its
own. Alright, as easy as that, we've got all of our components, so now you just want to
add your wet to your dry, but here's an important point. Gemma tells you this all the time,
but you want to make sure you don't over mix your banana bread because it'll toughen it
up and it'll make it not very nice. Alright now your chocolate chip banana bread batter
is ready to go into it's tin, and I have here a 9 by t already lined with parchment
paper. The parchment paper is really helpful just to get your banana bread out cleanly and easily,
but if you don't have parchment paper, that's just fine. Just make sure that your tin is
nice and greased. Now you may have noticed that this pan is silicone and I'm going to
tell you why in a minute. OK, you just want to spoon your batter in. Make sure everything
gets in there evenly into the corners and try not to make a mess like I am. And then
just give it a little hit on the counter to make sure that all the bubbles and things
work their way out. OK so if you're baking this in a traditional oven the instructions
are on biggerbolderbaking.com. But hold on. I'm also going to show you how you can make
it in less than 10 minutes in the microwave and then we're going to compare the two side-by-side.
Alright now, you just want to put your silicone pan into the microwave and microwave it for
4 minutes. Now remember, our microwave heats at 1200 Watts, so make sure to check your
wattage and adjust your time accordingly. OK, our first time is up, so let's check it
out. Look at that, it's looking good. It's raised up. You can see it's a little bit wet
still, so let's add another 3 minutes to it and check It again. Alright, as you can see
it's almost there, but it's still a little wet, so let's add another minute. Alright,
there we go, nice and firm, it's looking great. So let's add some tinfoil at the end to give it a little
extra steam. That will make it nice and moist. And now it's time for the comparison, do not
go anywhere. OK, I get it. The one out of the oven looks nice and Golden Brown baked
perfectly, but the microwaved one Is steamed to perfection, so really it's all up to
the taste. Alright, Gemma actually thought she was going to get a holiday all day, but I
have my blind taste tester here, and I want you to taste... I'm not ok with this, the
different banana breads. Gemma, we’ll get you a full day off right now so. Ok this
is this is number 1. What do you think of that one? Delicious, moist chocolaty. Excellent excellent OK
banana bread #2. Nice big bites as you usually like. It seems a little bit denser
than the first one. OK, but it’s banana-y, very chocolaty, delicious. I don't know the
first one seemed a little bit softer. Alright Gemma, the first one was the one we made the
microwave in less than 10 minutes. Oh no way. Pretty amazing huh? That's crazy. Yeah, that
was a really good idea. Yeah, there you go. Well you can do it two different ways. If
you want to do it traditionally or in the microwave special shout out to Brian Barnes
on the bigger bolder baking team for coming up with the microwave idea, and I want to
see your banana breads. Make sure to make them and share them with us and thanks everybody
for joining us. That's great, Kevin. Good job, thanks. You can enjoy the rest of the
day off. Oh yeah sure.