Bomb Diggity Quick Bread

I am not a baker. That isn't saying that I'm bad at it, I just don't do it often. I have friends that love to bake and they are always talking about the cookies, cakes and breads they made. I on the other hand detest measuring cups. I learned to cook by watching my beautiful Grandma Alice use her palm to measure and describe recipes by saying "a bit" or a "pinch" of seasoning. To be a great baker you need to be good at making sure that all your ingredients follow the recipe to a T.
Well, occasionally I dust off my measuring cups and spoons and bake. Yesterday I was skimming my new Food network magazine and saw a great quick break mix and match. It gave tons of different choices for your quick bread--carrot, bananas or zucchini? Walnuts, raisins or coconut? Vanilla Bean, brown butter or cream cheese glaze? Well, I hate bananas and only had carrots in the fridge so carrots is it. I'm allergic to most nuts so that limited the choices in mix ins therefore I settled on chocolate chips. As for the glaze I picked chocolate. One other small change had to be made to the magazines recipe. I only had strawberry yogurt and it required plain. I won't tell if you don't.
Whatever recipe I followed, this bread turned out fantastic. And the strawberry flavor made it better.

Bomb Diggity Quick Bread
1 cup shredded carrot (I put mine in my mini food processor)
1 3/4 cups chocolate chips
1 1/4 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp each: baking powder and salt
1/2 tsp each: baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg
2 eggs
1/2 cup cooled melted butter
1/2 cup plain (or strawberry) yogurt
1 tsp each: vanilla and citrus zest
GLAZE
1 cup confectioners sugar
2 tbs cocoa
2 tbs milk
1/4 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

Pre-oven 350 and spray 9 by 5 loaf pan with pam.
Mix flour, sugar,baking powder, salt, baking soda,cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl; add chocolate chips/ In another bowl mix eggs,butter,yogurt, vanilla, zest and carrot. Fold wet ingredients into the dry until combined.
Put into the loaf pan and bake for 55 min. Let cool.
For the glaze whisk the conf. sugar, cocoa, milk, vanilla and salt. Then pour on the bread and let set for 15 to 20 minutes.
I then topped mine with some more chocolate chips.
enjoy