A Sunday a few weeks back, I was just ready to make banana chocolate cupcakes (with additional chocolate chips). So ready that I took out the ripened bananas I had frozen a few weeks back, and started to let them thaw in anticipation of making the cupcakes. However, when I returned to the kitchen to start readying the rest of the ingredients, I discovered I had only one egg instead of the two eggs called for in the recipe. I did a quick search of the Internet to see if I could find a way to modify the recipe, but unfortunately I couldn't find anything that made sense so I readied myself to just throw away the bananas and find another time to make the cupcakes.
But then I thought about what else I could make that day, and realized that I really didn't have much to make anything work, so why not try to salvage the bananas? I did a google search for one egg banana bread, and ended up finding this recipe: http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001465banana_bread.php. I decided to add in 1/4 cup of cocoa and sprinkle chocolate chips on top to meet my chocolate desires, and substitute some brown sugar for 1/2 of the white sugar in the recipe, and otherwise followed the recipe as is. The bread did take some extra time to bake (maybe 10 minutes or so), but turned out well. It was very moist, and the chocolate taste was perfect. I'll be making it again, so it almost makes me look forward to more kitchen planning mishaps in the future!
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