Chocolate Banana Bread

This bread is delicious and usually doesn't last more then two days in my house.  Banana bread is one of my all time favorite things to bake, but adding chocolate to it, just adds a whole other level of deliciousness to the bread.  

Ingredients:

3 Bananas (Make sure they are really ripe)

1/2 cup of unsweetened applesauce (I usually just use one snack size applesauce cup)

3/4 cup of dark brown sugar

1 egg

1 Tsp Vanilla

1 Tsp Baking Soda

1/4 Tsp Salt

1 Cup White Whole Wheat Flour

1/4 Cup of Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa Powder

1/4 Cup of Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1 Cup of Dark Chocolate Baking Chips and extra for top

Directions:

1.)  Heat oven to 350 and coat bread pan with cooking spray. 

 * This makes one larger loaf and one mini loaf which makes it perfect because Cy gets the small one and I get the big one - although he usually ends up with mine too :)

2.)  Mash bananas in a big bowl.  Mix in applesauce, then the brown sugar, egg and vanilla

3.)  Sift together baking soda, salt, flour and cocoa powder and sift over the wet ingredients 

4.)  Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients after sifting until just combined.  Stir in chocolate chips 

5.)  Pour into pans and top with extra chocolate chips to make it extra pretty and because who wouldn't want more chocolate in the bread

6.)  Bake 55-60 minutes

7.)  Cool for about 10 minutes then loosen out of pan.  Serve warm with a bit of vanilla ice cream or however you like it.  You can freeze it if you aren't going to eat it right away or keep it in the fridge if it is going to last longer then 4 days, but really it won't... I promise you that!

On a side note, this wonderful boy of mine took me horseback riding up in Sedona.  I met this horse on the right, Colorado, first and fell in love with him.  I fed him, petted him and he warmed up to me and even nuzzled up to me.  :)  I couldn't ride him unfortunately but I am considering going back up there and taking Colorado away with me and riding off into the sunset.  

Cy's horse was named Two-Toned and mine was named Apache on the left.  They are best buds even though mine kicked Cy's horse multiple time on the trail.  :)