Chocolate banana bread. This banana bread features cocoa, chocolate chips, sour cream and a bit of vanilla extract. Dear banana bread lovers, putting chocolate chips in your banana bread is like having your bananas and chocolate go on a date. Lovely and sweet, yet still separate and distinct.
Add eggs, bananas, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to the banana mixture and mix just until combined. The bananas make the bread super moist and you can still taste the bananas. You can have Chocolate banana bread using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate banana bread
- Prepare of A. Dry ingredients.
- You need 175 grams of (1 and 1/4 cup) plain flour - sifted.
- It’s 40 grams (1/2 cup) of cocoa powder -sifted.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
- Prepare 1 of and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder.
- You need 60 grams (1/2 cup) of brown sugar.
- It’s 40 grams (1/4 cup) of caster sugar.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
- It’s of B. Wet ingredients.
- You need 2 of overripe Bananas - mash by fork - mixed with a tsp of lemon.
- Prepare 115 grams (1/2 cup) of or 1 stick) unsalted butter- melted & cool.
- It’s 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- It’s 2 of large eggs - at room temperature.
- You need 60 ml (1/4 cup) of milk - at room temperature.
- It’s of Other.
- You need 75 grams (1/2 cup) of chocolate chips.
This recipe also calls for melted unsalted butter AND oil. The butter gives the bread a nice flavor and the oil keeps the. Chocolate Banana Bread is the perfect combination of chocolate and banana. The balance between the two flavors in my recipe is outstanding!
Chocolate banana bread step by step
- Grease and line your 9 x 5 inch baking tin with baking or parchment paper. Preheat oven to 170oC (350oF).
- Mix dry ingredients by a whisk. In another bowl, mix wet ingredients until combined. Make a well in the middle of your dry ingredients, add wet ingredients and mashed banana. Very gently fold the mixture using a spatula or wooden spoon until the mixture is just combined – be careful not to over mix..
- Add 1/4 cup of chocolate chips to the batter. Pour mixture into prepared tin and sprinkle 1/4 cup of chocolate chips on top..
- Bake for approximately 45-50 minutes or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack..
It took me a few tries to get it quite right, because I either ended up with bread that tasted just like chocolate cake (not that that’s bad) OR a barely there chocolate flavor with too much banana. Chocolate Banana Bread “Each time I make this I am told, ‘This is the BEST banana bread EVER’, ‘This is the moistest banana bread I have ever tasted’, ‘This bread is amazing!'” - (Mr.) Dana A. Chocolate Chip Banana Bread “Good thing the recipe makes two loaves because the family, myself included, couldn’t get enough of this delicious treat!” TESTED & PERFECTED RECIPE - Chocolate chips & cocoa powder give this chocolate banana bread deep chocolate flavor, while the addition of sour cream makes it rich and tender. Serve it for breakfast or top it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and call it dessert. This recipe seriously feels like you’re eating actual chocolate cake… yet it’s secretly good for you at the same time!.