10 Minute Chocolate Nutella Banana Bread

Preheat the oven to 350.

In one bowl, combine:

• softened butter
• eggs
• bananas
• sugar
• nutella (I use a big generous spoonful of the stuff when I make a loaf, which probably measures out to somewhere around 3 Tablespoons or so depending on what stuck to my spoon)

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Use a potato masher, fork, or spoon to squish the banana and mix the ingredients together. It is alright for there to be small (1 centimeter) chunks of banana in the batter, but you want most of the banana to be reduced to mush.

In another bowl, combine:

• flour
• salt
• baking soda
• baking powder
• cinnamon

Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix until the ingredients are blended together. Here's where you add the extra ingredients if you want:

• chocolate chips

Pour the dough into greased baking pans and bake until a toothpick or knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

(Small loaves take around 30 minutes, a normal-sized loaf takes around 50 minutes to about an hour and a half, depending on how many bananas were used.)

Remove from the oven. This bread is great warm, but it is excellent cold too.

After they have cooled for 5 or 10 minutes the loaves can be removed from the pan to cool. Once they are cool they can be individually wrapped and frozen. That said, the stuff dissapears so fast I've never had a chance to store any.