Recipe: Very Chocolate Friendship Bread

Very Chocolate Friendship Bread
3 large eggs
2/3 cup oil
1/3 cup applesauce
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
2 cups Friendship Starter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
sliced almonds or shredded coconut to sprinkle on top of the loaves
Grease six mini-loaf pans and sust with granulated sugar
with a wire whisk, blend the eggs, oil, and applesauce in a small bowl. In a separate, larger bowl, use a wire whisk to mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Remove the wire whisks from the preparation area, because you'll be using only a woden spoon from here on in. Add the wet ingredients, stirring to mix well. Add the starter and vanilla and mix until well blended, then stir in the chocolate chips. Divide the batter equally between the mini-loaf pans. they'll be a little over halfway full. Sprinkle the almonds or coconut atop each loaf. Place the pans on a cookie sheet, which acts as a tray, and place it on the mikle rack of a preheated 350'F oven. Bake for 30 minutes. Feel the top of each loaf; if they are still soft bake additional 5 minutes, or until the tops of the loaves spring back when gently pressed. Remove the cookie sheet with the pans on it from the oven, and place on a wire rack to cool. Cool the loaves completely in the pans.