TWD: Back in Action and Cocoa-Nana Bread

This week the assignment was Cocoa-Nana Bread, chosen by Steph at Obsessed with Baking. I made it on Saturday morning while the kids were playing, and we ate it throughout the day. Before long Jacob came in the kitchen to dig in the drawer where the measuring cups and spoons are. I thought maybe he wanted to help so I got out his new apron that his aunt made him for Christmas, and got the baking powder ready for him to pour. Turns out he didn't want to help, he just wanted to throw measuring spoons and cups around the living room, much to my dismay and much to his baby sister's delight. She sucked on every 1/2 tsp. in the house and loved it. After I put the batter in the pan Jacob wanted to have a bite so I gave him a lick of my spatula. Not 2 minutes later (after I was pretty sure I put the bowl in the sink) I looked into the kitchen to see him on the floor with my KitchenAid mixer bowl, the spatula in his mouth, and his mouth and clothes lovin' on the chocolate. Too bad Jeff had the camera with him, it would have been a classic picture.

This bread is a little bit too chocolatey for me to be a breakfast sort of bread, but it was still pretty good. My pan makes most quick breads too crusty so I cut the crusts off and liked the moist middle much more. I put the bananas on the table for the picture just to remind myself and others that they were an ingredient, since they end up being a tad bit overpowered by the cocoa. What you can't see is that next to the plate on the other side there is a machete, a bike pump, and a ski mask. Those are not ingredients, thankfully. Next time I'll add another half of a banana and I'll make sure I have chocolate chips to put in since I had to leave those out this time.

Someone in the family loves to eat chocolate chips straight out of the bag, which means we usually have some, but it also means that we run out when I least expect it. And I won't name any names, but the chief chip-eater is neither my husband nor either of the children. Just sayin'.

I won't post the recipe here, but I will give a hint...go to Google Books, search for Dorie Greenspan Baking and go to page 46! They have about every other page of the book on there for preview, and this one happens to be just one page. I have wanted this book for so long and bid for it on ebay the other day but I lost because the auction ended while I was asleep. I didn't really want to win bad enough to wake up at 3 AM, I guess. But they have it for just 14+shipping at ecookbooks, the cheapest I've found, so I think I will go ahead and buy it so I don't have to keep waiting for my name to come up for it at the library.

Stay tuned for next week: milk chocolate mini bundt cakes!