5 from 847 votes
The Essential Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe
The Essential Chocolate Chip Banana Bread combines mashed ripe bananas, all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, eggs, oil, vanilla, and chocolate chips to bake a moist, tender loaf. The batter is mixed gently to avoid toughness, producing a golden, soft bread studded with rich chocolate and warm banana flavor.
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
50 mins
Servings:
1
loaf
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 1 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour amount 8oz/225g
- ½ cup sugar 4oz/115g
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 ½ cups banana mashed, amount 12oz/360g (around 3 medium bananas
- 1 egg large
- ⅓ cup sunflower oil or vegetable oil or canola oil, flavorless oil, amount 2½floz/71ml
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips amount 6oz/170g plus a handful more for decorating the top