Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Candied Ginger

Recipe from: Orangette

Ingredients

6 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted

2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

3/4 cups sugar

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/3 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger

2 large eggs

3 bananas (or 1 1/2 cups), mashed

1/4 cup whole milk, plain yogurt (not low or non-fat)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 F, and grease a standard 9 x 5 loaf pan.

In a small bowl, microwave the butter until just melted (do this slowly so as not to spatter the butter). Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Add the chocolate chips and ginger and mix together.

In a medium bowl, lightly beat the eggs with a fork. Add banana, yogurt, butter, and vanilla and mix until combined (a fork is fine here). Pour banana mixture into dry ingredients and fold in (don’t over mix). The batter should be thick and lumpy.

Pour into a loaf pan and bake 50 minutes to 1 hour (my loaf took an hour) or until golden brown on top, with a toothpick coming out of the center clean. Out of the oven, cool the loaf in the pan for five minutes. Then invert onto a wire rack to cool all the way. Slice and serve.