Strawberry Chocolate Chip Bread

So its been a while since I've posted any of my adventures in the kitchen and I admit it I've been slacking on taking new pictures. 

I did make some amazing coffe caramels with black lava sea salt.  I wasn't entirely sure how they would come out since I was adapting the recipe that I had used for the green apple caramels.  The only thing that I think would make them better would be to leave out the cinnamon.  Then again there are millions of people that like cinnamon in their coffee so maybe I should leave it. 

My other experiments revolve around the title of this post, Strawberry Bread.  It sounded like something a little different without completely jumping off the tried and true so I figured that I would give it a shot.  Once I really got started on making it I realized that the batter is more like that of a pound cake.  Only there's none of that pesky egg separation and beating egg whites.

Anyway...I made the bread and completely forgot to take pictures while I was doing so.  To make matters worse I didn't have a chance to take any of the finished product either since it was gone in minutes.  The end result is a bread that tastes more like a cake with chunks of strawberry throughout.  I even used my sister's suggestion of dusting the loaf pan with sugar to create a sweet and slightly crunchy crust. 

So, I just had to make another one (for picture purposes only of course).  As I was going through the cabinet to get the baking powder I came across some unused chocolate chips (I know, I know, chocolate abuse).   Which led to the change of the title to include the chocolate chips.  I haven't taken the pictures of anything yet but I promise that I'll get to those in the morning so that I can share it sweet crusty goodness. 

I think for now its going to be more baking and less candy making.  That is until I come up with some idea that I can't get out of my head until I try it...