Best Chocolate Banana Bread
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Best Chocolate Banana Bread
Description
Best Chocolate Banana Bread combines mashed ripe bananas with cocoa powder and semisweet chocolate chips, resulting in a chocolatey loaf softened by the natural sweetness and moisture of the bananas. Using both all-purpose flour and a leavening mix including baking powder creates a balanced structure, while the melted butter and oil add richness and tenderness. Walnuts add texture and earthiness, but are optional.
The preparation involves mixing dry ingredients separately, mashing bananas, blending wet ingredients, then folding in dry components and chocolate chips carefully to avoid overmixing, which preserves a tender crumb. The loaf is baked in a buttered pan at 350°F and is ready when a toothpick has only a few moist crumbs attached.
This bread slices well for breakfast toast or a midday snack. The extra chocolate chips sprinkled on top melt slightly, adding visual appeal and extra bursts of chocolate with each bite. The mild cocoa flavor pairs nicely with the sweetness of bananas and sugar.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt sea salt
- 1 1/2 cups banana about 3 medium bananas, mashed
- 1 egg room temperature, large
- 1/4 cup butter melted, unsalted
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips large
- 1/2 cup walnuts chopped - optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick baking spray and set aside.
- In a medium bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and sea salt, whisk to combine or if you have time, it is better to sift all the ingredients. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork until no large chunks are left. Add the slightly cooled melted butter, oil, vanilla, and egg. Stir until fully combined.
- Whisk in brown sugar until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and gently fold in with a spatula, careful not to overmix.
- Stir in 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips and the chopped walnuts, if using.
- Transfer batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of chocolate chips on top of the bread.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out mostly clean, with no raw batter on it. Start checking on the bread at the 50-minute mark, and if it still needs to be baked longer, check on it every 5 minutes.
- Once fully baked, remove the pan from the oven and set it on a wire cooling rack. Let the bread cool in the pan for 15 minutes.
- Cut into slices and serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 10slices
Amount Per Serving
Calories 329 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 0g | |
| Calories | 329kcal | 16% |
| Carbohydrates | 50g | 17% |
| Protein | 4g | 8% |
| Fat | 14g | 22% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Cholesterol | 17mg | 6% |
| Sodium | 136mg | 6% |
| Potassium | 443mg | 9% |
| Fiber | 4g | 16% |
| Sugar | 32g | 64% |
| Vitamin A | 90IU | 2% |
| Vitamin C | 3mg | 3% |
| Calcium | 97mg | 10% |
| Iron | 3mg | 17% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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