- Hey Bakers.
John Kanell from Preppy Kitchen here.
Today we're making this decadently delicious banana bread
with a slew of spices,
tons of chocolate chips
and a lot of bananas.
It's packed with fruit and it's called bread,
so how can it not be healthy, I ask you?
How?
Let's get started.
First off I'm gonna be mashing my mummified bananas (laughs)
into this bowl.
Just kidding.
They're not mummified.
I did not have those super ripe bananas
that are best for the recipe.
I had regular ripe bananas.
So I baked them at 350 Fahrenheit on a baking sheet
for about 10 minutes until they blackened
and they're gooey inside.
This will be like the worst thing ever
to find in your lunchbox (laughs).
Okay those other two in there.
That is like a horror story.
Eh, banana texture is a trigger, I know.
Now you can mash it up with a fork if you want
or you know, your bare hands.
Okay, that is a gooey, pudding-like consistency.
Setting it aside,
and now let's whisk up those dry ingredients.
We're gonna use a bowl
and uh, so far away,
the scale.
It's supposed to do that.
Okay zero your scale out and one and 3/4 cups
or 217, 15 grams
of all purpose flour.
1/2 a teaspoon of all-spice,
one of my favorites.
1/4 teaspoon of cardamon.
One teaspoon of cinnamon.
Finishing off the dry ingredients with a teaspoon of salt,
a teaspoon of baking powder
and a teaspoon of baking soda.
All the rising agents.
Let's sift it out and then we'll whisk it up.
Setting it aside.
Now we're gonna cream the butter.
One stick, 113 grams, 1/2 a cup.
I don't know how many ounces it is,
but that's what we're gonna do.
Very room-temperature, unsalted butter into my stand mixer
fitted with a paddle attachment will cream it up.
(stand mixer whirring)
I have half a cup of white sugar,
1/4 cup of lightly packed brown sugar.
Look at this, hmm.
(stand mixer whirring)
Right, you're gonna mix it up until it is light and fluffy,
and by the by if you want to like go a little bit extra,
you could brown your butter first.
(upbeat music)
Scrape your bowl down why not.
(stand mixer whirring)
Now it is time for dos huevos,
one at a time.
(mixer whirring)
Let it mix in,
and then the second egg.
(mixer whirring)
Yes you can scrape your bowl down again, why not?
It is not a contest,
but that's some A-plus scraping.
(upbeat music)
Back to business.
So we have our eggs in there.
What about some yogurt for a little bit
of extra moisture and tang.
Just two teaspoons should be fine.
There we go, put that away.
Mix that up.
(mixer whirring)
Gonna toss in a teaspoon of vanilla extract .
And now, what about the bananas you ask?
Well here they are,
just toss them in.
It's up to you,
I kinda like a little bit of banana texture
because they taste delicious
when they're baked
and they're just so moist and nice,
but if you want it to be totally homogenous
you can puree it in a blender.
Do whatever you want.
Okay. We're gonna mix this in.
(mixer whirs)
Oh!
My face
(laughs) how dare you?
All right, now let's put our flour mixture inside.
(claps)
Mix on low.
(Mixer whirs)
You can smell all the smells right now.
It's delicious.
(mixer whirs)
Okay, that's good.
All right, now it's time for one and a half cups
of semi-sweet chocolate chips,
amazing!
If you wanted to you could add in whatever you want.
Coconut? Toasted nuts? Bits of garbage?
It's your dish.
(mixer whirs)
That's good.
So I'm gonna set this aside for a moment.
After I clean my batter off,
set that aside.
Get a sheet of parchment paper.
I like to have a bit of a handle to pull it out
so I don't, you know, man-handle the surface or anything.
So just fold over a sheet of parchment,
oh wait, that's two.
(paper rustles)
Fold over a sheet of parchment paper.
You wanna have like 9 inches or just a little
bit less than the length of your pan.
(paper rustles)
Okay, use a knife or a scissors.
(paper rustles)
That's a sharp knife.
And we're just going to add a little bit of baking spray
or butter, whatever you want
to the inside of the pan.
Place the paper in,
press the paper down.
And now we have two handles we can use
to pull our baked bread out of the pan
and not worry about getting like chocolate
on your fingers or marring the surface.
Dump the batter out.
Oh that smells so good.
(laughs) So good.
Just get all that batter off of your spatula.
This will level out in the oven,
but let's level it beforehand too.
There we go, that looks much better.
This is officially finished,
however what about the top?
Let's make the top look nice and pretty.
We're gonna add some chocolate chips on here.
You can sprinkle them strategically
or be an extra-double Virgo like some of us
and place them more carefully.
But you wanna have some nice even coverage,
so that it looks nice and even.
Don't mind me, I'll just be individually
placing chocolate chips to fill the gaps in.
That looks nice.
I'm done.
This is gonna go into the oven at 350 Fahrenheit,
177 Celsius for a little bit less than an hour,
maybe check it at 50 minutes
and see how it's doing.
Use a skewer, test the center, let it cool down
before you chomp into it though.
Don't burn your tongue.
Look who came to visit her grandkids, my children.
- And my son.
- Yeah, my mother Rita, hi.
- Hello.
- So my mom used to make this all the time, like...
- Whenever you want bananas.
- This is like all my childhood memories here,
but this is actually my recipe.
I asked my mom for her recipe.
I was like, "Mom, send it over,"
and you gave me a wonderful banana zucchini bread.
Which I'm sure is delicious.
- I couldn't find my older one.
- But I love it.
And would you like to try it out?
- I'd love to try it out.
- Okay, I'm gonna have like half of this piece for you,
you can take a bite.
Half of this piece for me.
- Ready?
- And let's give it a test.
(upbeat music)
- Unbelievable.
- It's so moist.
- Hmm
- And
- Hmm
- It's chocolate.
- It's all for me. Thank you.
- All right.
You can take it.
Thanks.
My hands are so much lighter now.
If you like that video,
you've gotta check out my chocolate zucchini cake.
It will blow your mind.
Maybe the best chocolate cake you've ever had in your life.
And if you like that,
what about my chocolate, chocolate-chip cookies.
Click down here for that.
They're delicious and your mind will be blown.
If you got any questions,
leave them in the comments below.
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