Favorite add-ins: walnuts and chocolate

[sonia]

Hey look, I can fulfill three months of prompts in one post! I tend to add walnuts and/or chocolate chips to most baked goods at one time or another.

I just made Brown Butter Cardamom Banana Bread with added walnuts (1/2 cup, chopped fairly small, mixed in just before pouring batter into the pan) and liked how it turned out. Good taste, good texture.

I previously added chocolate chips, and wasn't as pleased with that. It wasn't bad or anything, but the chocolate and cardamom didn't go together that well. I see a couple of recipes for banana chocolate chip muffins in the archives that I'll have to try out sometime.

The update I've been meaning to post is for Date-Nut Cake with Apricots and Teff. Since I have a bigger pan than the recipe recommends, and add chocolate chips (of course), and tend to measure generously for the nuts and dried fruit, I tried adding more teff flour (3/4 cup total) and another egg (3 total). It took longer to mix, but the final result held together better and was easier to slice thinly. I think I'll keep making it that way.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Triple treats! Thanks for updating the info in the previous versions you link to -- makes your contributions more useful!

[sonia]

Is that a thanks for the one I did edit, or a Midwestern-style directive to edit the one I didn't, or some combination of both?

[jesse_the_k]

It’s a thanks — my ‘rona muddled brain thought you’d edited both of them.

[sonia]

Good to know, thanks! I edited the Banana Bread recipe too. (Oops, originally posted this at the wrong comment level.)

[jesse_the_k]

you juggled three entries! On a Sunday!

[monanotlisa]

This looks great! I love cardamom; it'll go into my next baking creation, methinks...

[sonia]

Let us know how it turns out!

Gold star for three prompts at once!

[runpunkrun]

Thanks for the updates!

Re: Gold star for three prompts at once!

[sonia]

:-) Runs off clutching her gold star for procrastinating (being too overwhelmed to post) for 3 months.