Chocolate Banana Bread

While writing this I'm noticing a trend of a lot of chocolate. I am quite a big fan of chocolate...but this blog isn't about baking chocolate but baking in general. Hopefully next week I will find a chocolate-less (GASP!) recipe.

This past Wednesday was a very rainy day. I think very rainy is actually an understatement. It was more like, this past Wednesday was a hurricane day. Although it was a long day filled with 6 classes, I tried to remain positive. The rain stopped and the sun came out and I was still in my hot obnoxious rain boots. Once I got home, I immediately flung my rain boots across my bedroom and laid down on the couch. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I had made it. My school day was over and ahead of me now was a relaxing night of making dinner and dessert.

I had called Lindsey on my way home from school and told her to find something for me to bake. When I got home, she set her computer in front of me and showed me a picture of a delicious loaf of chocolate banana bread. I immediately needed a glass of milk just from the picture. I loved this recipe because I already had overly ripe bananas and all we needed from the store was chocolate cocoa and chocolate chips. It was a pretty pain free trip to the store and Lindsey and I even splurged and bought a zucchini to add to our stir fry veggies.

We went through the now routine pre-baking events of cleaning the kitchen (it's so silly that we clean before we make it dirty), and making dinner. Our newest tradition was also adding a glass of wine to the cooking dinner process. I never knew why my mom was so much nicer when cooking dinner after a long day at work when she had a glass of red wine, but now I totally understand.

The meal was delicious, as always. Our sweet chili chicken, rice and veggies is now becoming a weekly meal which is totally fine with me. Lindsey cooked while I baked and by the time dinner was ready the banana bread was going in to oven to bake for an hour.

After doing the dishes, time passed slow as the bread baked. Kendall came home from night class and we all played cards on the floor trying to get our minds off the deliciousness in the oven.

The timer went off but I feared the bread was still too gooey. I always hate taking things out too early because the outside of it looks ready but the inside isn't. But I equally hate baking things until the inside is ready only to burn the outside. I found a middle ground and the bread turned out great.

The chocolate in it was a great combo with the banana and the warm bread paired great with the rain. Lindsey picked out a great recipe that was simple and made all the roomies happy.

I've really grown to love this blog. It's an excuse to spend a night relaxing and cooking and baking and it's still counted as homework.