44 | 52 Nutella Banana Bread

Thanks, cousin! 

Without you or Facebook I might not have stumbled upon this recipe. 

Don't bake this if you are afraid of sugar. Or if you don't like it sweet. 

Or worse - if you don't like Nutella.

But of course you wouldn't be here if that was the case. Right?

Nutella Banana Bread

From The 36th Avenue

4 bananas, ripe & mashed
227 g (1 cup) butter, room temperature
2 eggs
400 g (2 cups) sugar
510 g (4 cups) flour

1/2 teaspoon salt
120 ml (1/2 cup) water
2 teaspoons baking soda
280 g (1 cup) nutella
180 g (1 cup) chocolate chips

• Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F).
• Cream together butter, sugar, and eggs.
• Add flour and salt. Mix until crumbly.
• Dissolve baking soda in warm water and add to the crumbly mix.
• Fold in mashed bananas and chocolate chips.
• Pour half of the dough into two bread pans. Spread 1/4 cup of Nutella length down the middle of the dough in each pan. Fill up with the remaining dough and repeat the Nutella step, swirling it together with the dough using a knife.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes. 

My modifications:

I only made half of the recipe because I only had 2 bananas... And I reduced the sugar to 150 g (3/4 cup) for half the recipe (=  300 g (1 1/2 cups) for the full recipe).

The taste:

It's yummy but very sweet (and I already reduced the sugar...). I was only able to eat it in very small portions (which is actually not such a bad thing, right?). I'm not sure yet if I would make it again though. But that shouldn't keep you - it's good!

Have you baked anything with Nutella? What was it and how did you like it? 

8/52 Banana Nutella Cake

Herbal tea. More herbal tea. And even more herbal tea.
About 4 litres a day for the whole week.

Because I've had a terrible cold, herbal tea was one of my main intakes this past week.
And occasionally this:

Come on, it's okay to need a little banana-nutella-soothing when you're sick, right?

Even though I feel better now, I still wanted to take the banana-nutella-combination to the next (hopefully yummier) level. 

Banana Nutella Cake

Adapted from Ruby

Banana cake:

125g (a little over 1/2 cup) butter, softened

125g (1 cup) powdered sugar

2 eggs

2 ripe bananas, mashed

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoon boiling milk

175g (1.4 cups) flour, sifted

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Nutella cake:

300 g (1 cup) nutella

2 eggs

100g (3/4 cup) flour, sifted

dash of milk

• Preheat oven to 180 °C (355°F).
• Mix together butter and sugar until pale yellow. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each. Add mashed bananas.
• Stir baking soda into boiling milk and add to batter. Fold in flour and cinnamon. Pour into prepared 22 cm (9 in) round baking pan.

• Mix all ingredients for nutella cake and pour on top of banana batter. Swirl the two layers together, if you wish.
• Bake 40-45 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, remove from pan to cool completely.

My modifications:
I didn't swirl the two layers together. It just wasn't a swirly day today.

My round pan is a bit bigger so my cake only needed 30 minutes to bake.

Taste:

It's a yummy cake, no doubt about it. Just not as moist and banana-y like most banana breads, for example. But it is a cake and not a bread, so that might explain it...

What's your favorite fruit-chocolate combination for cakes?