Super-extra banana bread

Banana bread? Awesome. Banana bread + peanut butter + cocoa? Super-extra.

This has become a staple in my morning routine, and if you have 15 minutes and 2 basic perishable ingredients (bananas, duh, and eggs) in your fridge, you can make this.

Post-surgery, I've been lucky enough to have lots of visitors, and sometimes it seems unreasonable to prep a wine and cheese tray for breakfast/brunch. Wine, yes – but havarti at 9:30 a.m.? That's pushing it. 

Also, this totally beats dry crackers if you need a little something and nothing sounds good. PLUS IT HAS FRUIT IN IT, so there.

Ingredients:

• 3-4 overripe bananas

• 2 eggs

• 1/4 cup softened salted butter

• 1/4 softened peanut butter (or almond butter, hazelnut spread, etc)

• 2 cups flour

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 3/4 cup brown sugar (or regular sugar, in a pinch)

• 2 TBS cocoa (I actually used a hot cocoa mix and no one judged me)

Directions - very unfancy, with no complaints:

• Mix butter, eggs, and peanut butter
• Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and cocoa and use beaters to add to egg/butter mixture 
• Mash bananas into the bowl

Baking:

• Non-stick spray a loaf pan (approximately 4" x 9")
• Spoon the mixture into the pan, which will end up approximately 3/4 full
• Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes (or until a knife comes out clean)