Nutella Banana Bread

MY BANANA CRAVING & CHOCOLATE CRAVING:
TOGETHER AT LAST

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs beaten
• 2 1/3 cup mashed overripe bananas
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup Nutella spread

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan
• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs, mashed bananas, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture.
• Mix one cup of batter with 3/4 cup Nutella. 
• Pour banana mixture into prepared loaf pan. Top with Nutella mixture and swirl with a knife. 
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack. 

RECIPE ADAPTED FROM HERE

- Sam

Going Bananas

YESTERDAY'S BREAKFAST

One of the things I crave almost every day are bananas. After getting over the morning sickness of my first trimester, bananas became an instant staple in my diet. Thankfully, they are much healthier than some of the other things I've been craving (i.e. baked beans, macaroni and cheese, an excessive amount of cream cheese), and they're a great source of potassium. I've never been a huge banana fan in the past, if there is such a thing, but now I have them in my yogurt, my cereal, my ice cream, but especially in my shakes and smoothies which I've been making a lot of as of late. So, without further ado, here is my banana appreciation post, which is literally making my mouth water as I type: