This is my recipe for a beautiful, moist banana bread made without any electric mixing equipment. All you need, aside from the ingredients are bowls, spoons and a loaf tin. I baked two loaves over the   more...weekend to perfect the recipe which I'm entering into an online banana bread bake-off. I've never entered a cooking or baking competition before. This was fun! Here's the recipe:

White Chocolate Marbled Banana Bread
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*1/2 cup butter (or reduced fat margarine), room temperature
*1 cup white sugar
*12 squares of White Lindor "Lindt" Chocolate (about 70 grams or roughly 2.5oz)
*3 large eggs, room temperature
*2 tsp vanilla extract (not essence)
*3 ripe, medium bananas, mashed (about 1.5 cups)
*2 cups plain (all purpose) flour
*1 tsp baking powder
*1 tsp baking soda (bicarb soda)
*1/2 tsp salt
*1 cup sour cream (low fat is fine)
*1/4 cup cocoa powder, sifted
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Preheat oven to 180C (or 350F) and lightly grease and flour a loaf baking tin. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in the eggs one by one (using a wooden spoon), waiting until each has been incorporated to add the next. Beat in vanilla extract and mashed bananas.
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add half of the flour mixture to the butter mix and stir to combine. Add in the sour cream, followed by the remaining flour mixture.
Remove 1 cup of batter into a small bowl and stir in well the cocoa powder.
Pour 2/3 of the plain batter into the prepared loaf tin, top with cocoa batter and spoon the rest of the plain batter on top. Swirl a knife through the batter gently (this will help create the marble effect in the centre of the banana bread). Add the white chocolate squares, 6 rows of 2, push the chocolate in just beneath the surface of the cake batter.
Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until a toothpick or skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean and the top springs back when lightly pressed. Leave the banana bread in a place to cool for half an hour before removing from the tin. Serve plain, or dusted with icing sugar (powdered sugar).  less

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"Chocolate" by Kylie Minogue
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Vote for "Maria at Foodie Wanderings"

Here:

http://www.notquitenigella.com/2008/05/19/the-ultimate-banana-bread-recipe-collection-banana-bread-bake-off-round-up/#comments
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Voting ends: Monday 2nd of June, 8am AEST

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This took hours to encode and the sound is all out of whack/synch. ?? First time I've experienced this on LV.

Viewers: Don't feel pressured to do a video response. The only way to actually respond to the question is by video, BUT comments-only about the video itself ..are cheerfully accepted :) I was motivated   more...to do this out of genuine curiosity and also because I enjoy completing a video within a couple of hours. Gives me a quick-creativity-fix :-)  less

A video response for 21stCenturyCat

I tag: billieprd, jenigma & suzecue72! I was tagged over at You Tube but decided to upload the video here too! :)

I made this video to put on my blog --as a visual update kind-of-thing.

For one of my YouTube friends (hence my username being different on the video).

This is a personal video. Not a light hearted video, but hopefully not too heavy. Part of who I am means being expressive. Our (my husbands and my) mutual friends will never even know this video exists.   more...So it's like I'm making something private, yet anonymous while being 'live' on the internet. It will be my subscribers who mostly view this, of which I have a small group. The video is born from emotional and spiritual changes -the kind and amount only God truly knows. My husband and I are separated at the moment as some of you would know - but with a focus on reconciliation and coming together again in strength, with a new and more solid foundation -in God. The actual process and consequences of me choosing to leave the marital home has rocked my husband to the core (he told me). Both of us have hurts. To move forward and to heal, all we can do is examine our own selves no matter how much we think the other person did this or that to us. It is this honesty that we can then offer to each other. Our sacrifice. The best possible version of ourselves. From love. So was born this video. From love.  less

I upload all my video's here and on YouTube. In this video I refer to myself as a 'YouTuber' - I could have interchanged the word with 'vlogger' but I was too tired to make two versions.. Don't mean   more...to offend any LV-faithful.  less

+ A message to all my subscribers at the end!

In response to: Make Me A Sandwich

Surprising my daughter!

Part of *the story*

Answering suburbanmom's questions.

This little video was made more for my personal collection (and hubby's too). We had a nice afternoon listening to singer/songwriter Bobby Flynn a former Australian Idol Finalist. Wonderful LIVE! My camera,   more...as some of you would know.. isn't an actual video camera. We weren't sitting close to Bobby either..so this was the best we could do. It's a lovely momento nevertheless. Still photographs after the live footage are from my camera & this afternoon's concert.  less

Webcam photo's & somethin' about my cat!

My 2nd Vlog - Change of Address

If I knew how to reduce this into two smaller video's I would have. Enjoy the music! :-)

Music:
"In Love Again" - Rogue Traders
"Solid Rock" - Goanna
"Sugar Baby Love" - Countdown   more...(though originally sung by "The Rubettes")
"Am I ever gonna see your face again?" Angels
"Video Killed the Radio Star" - The Buggles  less

MUSIC:

"Lobo, Az Idegen" by Neoton Familia
"Isn't it time" by the Babys

Are you normal #8

Response to suburbanmoms questions

A video response asking the vlogger to show others what their computer wallpaper is.

My video response to a question/contest.

Music: "Don't leave home" sung by Dido