baking frenzy

Last night I baked vegan banana bread. Then I baked vegan pumpkin bread. I thought it would be easier because I already had everything out. Both turned out great, but I think I like the pumpkin bread more. The spices are delicious. However, I put chocolate chips in neither.

The pumpkin bread called for half cup of applesauce, but I had a lot of overripe bananas, so I used about half a cup of mashed banana instead, and that worked great.

My banana bread had spots that were kind of underdone even though I cooked it for the recommended time and my inserted knife came clean. This is the second time this has happened to me, and I'm confused.