Molly’s recipe, which she shared with me last Sunday. I took a photo of her recipe card, handwritten, with American measures like cups etc. As I sat down yesterday to decipher it with the help of Google, Florek came along and asked- whatcha doin? Looked across my arm, took the laptop out of my hands and swifty employed Chat GPT to do the job. Gave it the photos of Molly’s recipe cards. It swiftly translated all the cups and “8 tbsps of butter” into grams for me, but then also simplified the baking method, the way I like it; instead of a 2 long sentence brag “combine all purpose flour, baking soda, cocoa ” etc before adding to the creamed butter and sugar combo, it served me with quick and efficient step by step instructions, which I much prefer. I really was impressed by what AI can do these days, but as Florek says, I ain’t seen nothing yet.

And so, on a wet and rainy Tuesday morning I decided to make the loaf. I used 250g of over ripe mashed bananas, 120 g of sour cream. 120g of plain flour, 1 tsp of baking soda, a pinch of salt, 2 tbsps of cocoa. 100g of sugar, mixed brown and white, which I have creamed with 115 g of soft butter. Once nice and flully, I added the mashed bananas and cream, 1 whole egg, then all the dry ingredients, taking care not to overmix everything. Finally aabout 120 g of good quality chocolate chips and some chopped pecans( which were not in the recipe). All this went into a lined loaf tin and into the oven at 180 degrees for about 45 minutes, until the skewer came out clean.

While it baked, the house smelled fantastic.

The loaf is very moist, not too sweet, chocolatey and wonderful. It will not be a snack free afternoon, unfortunately.

Ps. AI helped to enhance both photos, taken with my phone. Yikes!