Gerry's Banana Bread

This is my Old Faithful, this is my bread. Hands down the best, most reliable, moist and flavourful banana bread I've ever known. I've used many different flours, adding a few things along the way: chocolate chips, walnuts, raisins, chopped dates, cranberries, blueberries, rhubarb, peaches, ..you get the picture. Sometimes it's been a mixture of these things.
There have been muffins and squares, loaves, bundts, and layers with icing. Sometimes I make it sweeter, sometimes I make it "healthy." It never fails.

Gerry's Banana Bread:
3 CUPS whole wheat flour
1 CUP sugar
1 TSP baking soda
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4 eggs (at room temperature)
12 or so very ripe bananas
(best: thawed freezer bananas)
4 TBSP melted butter

Combine the dry ingredients, set side. Melt the butter, also set aside.

Whip the eggs until  stirred and foamy. 

Add the bananas and mix gently so not to mash the bananas too much 

(unless you don't like sweet banana morsel-pockets in your bread).

Blend in the dry ingredients a cup at a time (so not to clump) and gently mix until well blended but not smooth (again, sweet morsels..).

Add whatever you're going to add. 

My loaves last night pleased the teenager greatly:

Chocolate chips in one, a plain loaf for the other.

I mixed the chocolate chips in after the batter was divided into the well buttered baking dishes:

  Then the loaves were given a generous sprinkle of 

brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon topping:

and baked for about one hour (maybe a few minutes more) at 350F:

Gerry's Banana Bread and Cinnamon Swirl Buns

Hannah's favourite, Chocolate Chip Banana Bread