Wedgwood Chocolate Banana Loaf

A delicious breakfast recipe from a profressional innkeeper

Innkeepers Nadine "Dinie" Silnutzer and Carl A. Glassman
Wedgwood Inns
111 West Bridge Street (Route 179)
New Hope, Pennsylvania 18938-1401

Innkeeper Comments:

This recipe tastes as wonderful as it smells baking, according to innkeeper and chief taster, Carl Glassman.

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 cups of flour
  
• 4 teaspoons of baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
  
• 1 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
  
• 1 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 3 cups ripe bananas, mashed
  
• 1 1/2 cups of sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 1/2 cup of melted butter
  
• 1/2 cup of evaporated milk
  
• 1 12-ounce package of of white chocolate chips

For variation, substitute 4 cups of chopped nuts for the chocolate chips. Better yet, simply stir in 2 cups of chopped nuts in addition to the chips!

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.

Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking salt,cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, beat the mashed bananas, sugar, eggs, and butter until creamy.

Add the milk and the dry ingredients to the banana mixture, mixing until well blended. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into pans. Bake for 60 minutes.