Chocolate Chip Banana Bread with Peanut Butter Icing

You know how back here, I mentioned how I just couldn’t get into the spirit of fall because it was a 100 million degrees and I wanted to swim in a vat of ice cream?

Well, I am a hypocrite.

A giant one, in fact, because today I woke up to overcast, 60-degree weather, and I wanted nothing more than to drink a pumpkin spice latte and start a fire in my non-existent fireplace.

Tomorrow, the forecast is scheduled to be a whopping 99 degrees, so clearly the weather is as bi-polar as my feelings of fall/winter are. It didn’t help that I watched You’ve Got Mail the other day and practically swooned over Christmas in New York during the wintery scenes of the movie. (On a completely unrelated note, can you believe that movie is almost 20 years old?)

Ingredients

• Bread
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 med-large bananas (or 4 small ones)
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
• 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (1/2 cup if you prefer less chocolate)
• Peanut Butter Icing
• 3/4 cups powdered sugar
• 3-4 Tbsp creamy peanut butter
• 2-3 Tbsp heavy cream (or enough to achieve a thick drizzling consistency)
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions
Bread

1. Preheat the oven to 350. Grease one 9x5 pan or two 8x4 pans.
2. In a small bowl, mash bananas, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and ground cinnamon.
3. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
4. Add in eggs and beat until mixed.
5. ............................

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