My family LOVES banana bread.

I hate making banana bread.

I can’t tell you how many black bananas I’ve thrown away because I just swore I was going to get around to it – eventually.  I’ve even put them in the freezer to save for later, then I eventually throw away the freezer burned bananas, too.

So when I started seeing this recipe for banana bread pop up all over Pinterest, I knew I had to give it a try.

Ingredients

1 Yellow Cake Mix

3-4 very ripe Bananas (I used 4)

2 Eggs

Chocolate Chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 350*.  Prepare 2 regular or one large loaf pan(s) by spraying WELL with cooking spray (or by greasing and flouring.  Do people still do that?)

Peel the bananas and throw them all in a big bowl; use your mixer to mash them all up.

Now just dump in the cake mix and the eggs, and mix well.  Then stir in the chocolate chips.  The recipe calls for 1/2 cup to 1 cup.  (I am lazy, so I just threw in the whole bag.   I thought that was a little too chocolately and would only use 1/2 bag next time.)

Pour into the prepared loaf pans

and bake for 35-40 minutes (mine took 45.  It will also take longer if you are doing one big pan).  Remove from the oven and let cool slightly, then turn out onto a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Uh…I told you to spray the pan well…

It was DELICIOUS.  I will never make regular banana bread (or waste all those bananas!) again!