Banana Bread Contest

We took Candi to Kahuku Grill which is one of our favorite places to eat. BOMB food. literally. Its kind of one of those hole in the wall places that you find, but the food is fresh and extremely flavorful. We have never been disappointed.

Anywho.. my favorite treat from there is banana, coconut, chocolate chip bread. When its warm, they serve it with ice cream.AMAZING. literally. and we were going to order some, only they were OUT. Can you believe that? They really have some nerve. haha


Since they were out of pure heaven in my mouth, Candi and I decided to take matters into our own hands and make our own that night and have a contest. We had fun teasing each other, but because the woman has i dont know... 20-30 years of baking on me, she pretty much won! Her bread was pretty dang good and moist and she used mac nut chocolate chips. It was more cake like. Mine was more bread like and i used regular choco chips.

They were both pretty good, but in my opinion she won and neither of our breads tasted at all like Kahuku Grill's, but it was still fun to try to imitate! Now my kitchen is full of bread we didnt finish eating. Looks like i'll be giving away, hopefully the neighbors like banana bread. We decided next time we attempt the imitation bread we would add a little cinimon and use 1/2 brown sugar and 1/2 white sugar. Also instead of all butter use 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening. If you dont bake you probably dont know what im talking about, but anyways.... it was fun to have a good little healthy competition with my mother in law.

Oh and i forgot the best part. We stuffed our faces with warm banana bread and Haupia ice cream. For those of you who are unfamiliar with haupia, it is coconut in Hawaiian. Amazing ice cream with some awesome banana bread. YUM.

Poor Huston. He was really in a bind as the judge! Ha