Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Banana Bread Loaf

One of my favourite recipes is this pumpkin banana bread loaf. I'm not sure where I found the original version, but since then I've played around with it and love baking it for people.  

Ingredients (makes 2 9x5 loaves):

•  3 cups flour
• 2 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• 2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 3 bananas
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 can pumpkin puree
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• Nuts (optional)

1) Mix all the dry ingredients together: flour, baking soda, salt, and spices, in a medium-sized bowl. 

Pre-heat the oven to 350*F.

Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl- I used my KitchenAid for this part. 

2) Mash the bananas with a spoon, for, or mixer.

3) Beat in the softened butter, brown sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, and vanilla.
4) Slowly add in the dry ingredients, followed by the chocolate chips and/or nuts. 

 5) Pour the mixture into two 9x5 loaf pans. I used parchment paper because I was bringing one of the loaves to my friend's house that night. Make sure it's all smoothed out.

6) Bake at 350*F for about an hour, rotating the pans throughout. Check the loaves with a clean knife since it'll stay pretty moist for a while.

Oooohmygoodness, I love this loaf. Every time people try it, they fall in love. For good reason.