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Old-Fashioned Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

Makes 3 mini loaves

1/4 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 1/4 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups flour

Pinch of salt

1 cup coarsely mashed bananas (about 2 small bananas)

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 6 ounces)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350°.

#1. In a small dish, stir together the sour cream and baking soda and set aside.

Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the sour cream mixture, then stir in the remaining ingredients (flour, salt, bananas, chocolate chips and vanilla) until the dry ingredients are just blended. Do not overmix.

#2. Divide the mixture between 3 greased mini-loaf pans (6”x3”x2”) and bake in the preheated 350° oven for about 40 minutes, or until a cake tester or wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the loaves cool in the pans for 15 minutes, remove, and continue to cool on a rack.

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