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Double Chocolate Banana Bread With Ganache

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ c flour
  • ½ c cocoa
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ cup butter
  • ¼ c light brown sugar
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 small bananas 1 1/3c, mashed well
  • ½ c. chocolate chips

Ganache

  • ¼ c. half and half
  • 2 T. light brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. butter
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 6 T. chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Grease and flour a 9x5 loaf pan.
  • Cream butter and sugars.
  • Add eggs.
  • Add bananas and beat well.
  • Add dry ingredients.
  • Fold in chips and pour into pan.
  • Bake for 50-60 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Let cool 15 mins and remove from pan onto a cooling rack.

Ganache

  • Heat cream and brown sugar in a saucepan just until it stats to bubble on the edges.
  • Add vanilla.
  • Add butter.
  • Once butter melts, shut the heat.
  • Add chocolate chip and do no stir them for 2 minutes.
  • Whisk gently until smooth
  • Let cool and then drizzle over the banana bread.