{"id":4438,"date":"2013-02-26T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2013-05-30T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T08:35:29","slug":"spring-cleaning-cake-chocolate-chip-peanut-butter-banana-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/spring-cleaning-cake-chocolate-chip-peanut-butter-banana-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Cleaning Cake (Chocolate Chip & Peanut Butter Banana Bread)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A view of our front door, taken back in December.\u00a0\u00a0 Apart from the Christmas wreath having been taken down, it looks almost exactly the same.\u00a0 On the days that it has snowed (again), the (now slightly battered) shovel awaits the drive and pathway clearing – a task for the first person to leave the house.\u00a0 If there was ever a way to let strangers know that you weren’t from around these parts, it would be not to leave both meticulous first thing in the morning!<\/p>\n

Today for the first time I even heard Bavarian’s complaining about the weather.\u00a0 You know it’s been a long hard winter when you hear that kind of talk coming from them!<\/p>\n

It seems like the vast majority of us are more than ready for Spring.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have even been fighting the slightly strange urge to do a spot of Spring cleaning (it doesn’t seem right at any time, let alone when there’s still snow on the ground) – but I have indeed made a slow start on the annual turf out of the first room – the kitchen.<\/p>\n

In an effort to use up a few half-finished bags of flour (a product than can induce many an Expat headache – with so many kinds for so many uses, and not a bag of self-raising in sight!), a half empty jar of smuggled SunPat Peanut butter, the rest of the “owl ears<\/a>” from the other day (before I demolish the lot by the handful) and some sorry-looking bananas, I thought I would do a rehash of Nigella’s Banana Bread<\/a>, a standard go to recipe in this house. \u00a0\u00a0 So here you go…\u00a0 Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter….\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My critics said it was very good, and have requested some for breakfast, who’s going to argue with that?\u00a0 It’s good toasted too, trust me!<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Chip & Peanut Butter Banana Bread<\/strong><\/p>\n

100g Chocolate Chips, 175g All purpose Flour (type 405), 2 teaspoons baking powder, half teaspoon bicarb of soda, half teaspoon salt, 125g melted butter, 150g caster sugar, 2 large eggs, 4 overripe mashed bananas, 80g Peanut Butter.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Place flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt in a bowl, mix together. \u00a0 In another bowl blend melted butter and sugar, and add eggs one at a time.\u00a0 Combine and mix well with the mashed bananas.\u00a0\u00a0 At this stage add the peanut butter to the eggs and sugar, and again mix well.\u00a0\u00a0 Add the contents of this bowl to the flour bowl,\u00a0 and stir well. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Place in a preheated oven (180 degC) and check after one hour.\u00a0 It may need slightly more or less time depending on your oven.<\/em><\/p>\n

And for those of you about to embark on a little Spring cleaning yourselves.\u00a0 I suggest you wait until all “helpers” are out of the way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With Small Boy’s writing made almost indecipherable by the fact that he insisted on sticking the stickers on the curved lids before<\/em> he wrote the names of the spices on them, this particular drawer is now in a slightly worse state than when we started.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not one to turn down help mind you,\u00a0 but I might just wait until they are at school to sort the office paperwork….<\/p>\n

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