Chocolate Banana Bread
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Chocolate Banana Bread
Description
This bread blends mashed very ripe bananas with cocoa powder, sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla to create a chocolate-infused banana bread. The addition of semisweet chocolate chips folded into the batter adds bursts of chocolate throughout the loaf.
Baked in a loaf pan at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, the result is a moist and tender bread with chocolate flavor layered over the banana’s natural sweetness. The texture is soft with a gently dense crumb suitable for slicing and eating plain or with toppings.
This bread works well as a quick bread served for breakfast, afternoon snack, or dessert. The recipe includes a simple approach that concentrates on balancing banana moisture with chocolate richness.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 egg large
- 3 banana mashed (1 1/2 cups mashed, very ripe
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a stand mixer beat together the butter, sugar and eggs then add in the bananas and vanilla. Add in the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder until just mixed then fold in the almost all the chocolate chips.
- Pour into a 9x5 loaf pan and sprinkle over the remaining chocolate chips and bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Notes
- Click on the times in the instructions to start a kitchen timer while baking.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 10servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 387 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 387kcal | 19% |
| Carbohydrates | 54g | 18% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 17g | 26% |
| Saturated Fat | 10g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 58mg | 19% |
| Sodium | 264mg | 11% |
| Potassium | 326mg | 7% |
| Fiber | 4g | 16% |
| Sugar | 31g | 62% |
| Vitamin A | 365IU | 7% |
| Vitamin C | 3.1mg | 3% |
| Calcium | 29mg | 3% |
| Iron | 2.8mg | 16% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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