Recipe: Easy Banana Bread

It sunk a little in the middle. Hmpf.

I was left to my own devices this morning while my dad went skiing with a friend, so I thought I'd bake them a sweet treat they could enjoy after their time on the slopes. I found this recipe on AllRecipes.com. 

Ingredients

• 3 ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325° F. Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
2. Combine bananas, sugar, egg, and butter together in a bowl. Mix flour and baking soda together in a separate bowl; stir in the banana mixture until batter is just mixed. Stir salt into batter. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour. 

My end piece had lots of chocolate chips in it!

As usual, I didn't follow the recipe exactly. I only used two bananas; I added the salt into the dry mixture (maybe that's why the bread tasted a little salty?); I put in a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips because...who doesn't like chocolate? I also thought the last step of this recipe was very silly. Of course you're putting the batter into a preheated oven; do most people own two ovens, and even if they did, why would they put the batter in the one that wasn't preheated? And the fact that it says, "about one hour" as opposed to "55-60" minutes: recipes should be more precise! BUT, then again, does it matter if I'm not going to listen to them anyway?

I have made many different banana bread recipes. Here are a few others:

Dark Chocolate Chip Raspberry Banana Bread

Chai-Spiced Banana Bread

Banana Peanut Butter Bread

Strawberry Banana Bread