Chocolate banana bread: A loaf of rich and wonderful flavour

Over the last few years, we’ve all been baking a lot more and when it wasn’t sourdough bread, it was banana bread. But, did you know that you could take your banana bread to a whole new level? This chocolate banana bread is moist, tender, and a chocolate lovers dream! Chocolate is still considered one of the world’s favourite dessert flavours and now you can have it with a hint of banana bread which we all love so much.

Chocolate banana bread suggestions

The bananas are ready when they have lots of dark spots on them and have softened up quite a bit. We don’t always eat them when they’re this soft but the flavour is intense and comes through when baking and it mixes more easily. You can still enjoy it with a spread of butter as you usually would with banana bread but it’s still great with some fresh fruit, syrup and maybe a dash of whipped cream. The options are endless and every bite will be delicious.

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Take your banana bread baking to a new rich level. This chocolate banana bread recipe is great with a cup of tea and coffee.

Chocolate banana bread recipe

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Recipe by Marele van Zyl Course: SnacksCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Prep time

15

minutes

Baking Time

65

minutes

Total time

1

hour 

20

minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup 1 all-purpose flour

• 1⁄2 cup 1⁄2 cocoa

• 1 tsp 1 baking soda

• 1⁄2 tsp 1⁄2 sea salt

• 3 large 3 brown bananas  

• 1⁄4 cup 1⁄4 unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled

• 1⁄4 cup 1⁄4 canola vegetable oil, or melted coconut oil

• 3⁄4 cup 3⁄4 packed light brown sugar

• 1 large 1 egg, at room temperature

• 1 tsp 1 pure vanilla extract

• 1 cup 1 semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided

Method

• Heat your oven to 180°C. Grease any type of loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork. Add the melted butter and oil and stir until combined. Stir in the brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth.
• Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, don’t over-mix. Stir in ¾ cup of the chocolate chips.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining ¼ cup of chocolate chips over the top of the bread. Bake for 50-65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out mostly clean, you might have some melted chocolate chips on the toothpick and that is fine. You just don’t want a lot of gooey batter. Check at 50 minutes, just to be safe. Oven times can vary.
• Remove the pan from the oven and set on a wire cooling rack. Let the bread cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the bread and carefully remove from the pan. Let the bread cool on the wire cooling rack until slightly warm. Cut into slices and serve.

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