For my dish, I decided to make banana bread. Like many others, I’ve made banana bread a few times during my extra time at home. My family was asking for me to make another loaf, but I only had one banana to use. I decided to find a new recipe that only required one banana but still had enough flavour to make up for it. It was also good that I made this recipe because the banana I had was very brown, and it probably would’ve been thrown out soon anyways. I had most of the ingredients required for the recipe, but I did make some changes. For example, it required granulated sugar and brown sugar, but I only had brown sugar, so I just added brown sugar. I didn’t want my banana bread not to be sweet enough, so instead of adding walnuts, I tossed in some chocolate chips. I did learn later that I may have made it too sweet when the bread came out because I added too many chocolate chips. I didn’t measure them out and thought I could eyeball how much was enough. My family did still enjoy the banana bread, though. Because this was a smaller loaf, we split it evenly and ate it together in one sitting, which was nice. I was expecting not to taste as much banana, but to my surprise, it tasted almost as flavorful as my other banana bread recipe. If I ever made this banana bread again, I think I would try it with walnuts for more of a healthier option.

Serving: 6

Ingredients

• 1 ripe banana
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts(or chocolate chips)

Instructions

• In a medium size mixing bowl, mash the banana. Then stir in the egg, vanilla extract, and oil until combined. Then add all at once the flour, sugars, baking soda, and salt. Fold until combined. Then stir in the chopped walnuts/chocolate chips.

• Spoon into your prepared (oiled or lined with parchment) baking vessels and bake at 325°F.

• Regular size muffins or a baked donut pan will yield six and should be baked for 14-15 minutes.If you use mini loaf pans, this will yield three and should be baked for 18-20 minutes.