Not Your Ordinary Banana Bread

With chocolate chips on top and pineapple inside, this certainly isn't like our usual banana bread recipe.  That's good because I feel like trying something different.  I found this recipe on one of my favorite recipe blogs, the girl who ate everything.  She promises that this banana bread will turn out very moist.  I hope so!

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Ingredients 
3/4 cup butter, softened 

2 eggs

1 ½ cup brown sugar

4 medium mashed bananas (2 cups) 

1/2 cup crushed pineapple 

1/2 cup applesauce

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 ½ teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cinammon

2 ½ cups flour

2 cups chocolate chips (11-12 ounce bag)

Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Grease and flour bottoms of 3 medium bread pans.*

Cream butter, eggs, brown sugar, bananas, applesauce, crushed pineapple and vanilla with a mixer. Add baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and flour. Mix well.

Pour into prepared bread pans.  Sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over the batter. Bake at 325 for 55 minutes to 1 hour.

*Original recipe suggests using tin foil pans.  Removing these moist loaves with gooey chocolate chips on top wasn't easy.  I would go with the tin foil pans next time!

    

Adapted slightly from The Girl Who Ate Everything

The Results...
Did everyone like this 'out of the ordinary' banana bread?  Yes, we did!  It did turn out very moist and we liked the chocolate chips on top.  Now we have a new favorite banana bread recipe!


This Recipe is shared at:
Mom's Test Meal Mondays @ Mom's Test Kitchen