Chocolate Banana Bread

This recipe is from the recipe-a-day calendar my wife gave me.  It was the recipe from February 8, 2018.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1 cup very ripe banana (3 or 4)
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Butter a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
3. Chop walnuts.
4. Mash bananas in a large bowl.
5. Melt butter, then whisk it into the bananas along with brown sugar, egg, and vanilla abstract.
6. Add baking soda, kosher salt, all-purpose flour, and cocoa powder and mix with a spoon.
7. Pour the batter into the loaf pan and top with chopped walnuts.
8. Bake 55 to 65 minutes.
9. Cool in pan for 10 15 minutes; the run a knife around the edge and invert it onto a cooling rack.
10. Serve warm or at room temperature.