Chocolate Chip Banana Bread – Rachel Cooks®

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Loaded with bananas! This banana bread recipe boasts 4 massive bananas. That’s a variety of banana goodness (and bananas are actually good for you, too). No pretend banana flavoring right here! It’s the proper manner to make use of up these further overripe bananas you’ll have sitting on the counter.

Loaded with chocolate! With an entire cup of chocolate chips within the batter, plus a beneficiant layer of chocolate baked on prime of the bread, your chocolate cravings needs to be fully glad. Serve the nice and cozy bread when the chips are nonetheless barely smooth and gooey. It’s one of the best!

Ingredient Notes

• Bananas: You’ll want about 4 massive bananas, sufficient to equal 1 ½ cups of mashed banana. Ripe bananas are finest; in actual fact, the riper the bananas, the sweeter the bread will style. Bananas with a lot of brown freckles are good.
• Chocolate Chips: This banana bread is loaded with chocolate chips. I like to make use of common sized chocolate chips within the batter and sprinkle mini chips on prime. If you happen to want, you could possibly merely use all mini chips.
• Sugar: Common white sugar (granulated sugar) is all you want.
• Oil: I often use canola oil or vegetable oil in my fast bread recipes. Any oil that has a light taste can be utilized. Coconut oil is an effective alternative, too.
• Eggs: Two massive eggs are combined into the batter to supply construction and richness. For the lightest textured bread, it’s finest if the eggs are at room temperature, nevertheless it’s not completely crucial. I’ve made this bread many occasions both manner.
• Flour: Common all-purpose flour is okay. If you wish to add extra diet and fiber, you could possibly make the bread with complete wheat flour or attempt my complete wheat banana bread recipe.
• Pure Vanilla Extract: A baker’s pal, vanilla provides heat candy notes to baked items.
• Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salt: These pantry gadgets are added to many baked items. They supply leavening and taste.

Freeze Bananas

I all the time have frozen bananas available for recipes like this banana bread. Don’t throw away these overripe bananas; they’re really easy to freeze! If you happen to occur to have a few overripe bananas on the counter, merely freeze them till you’re able to bake bread.

How To Make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Prep. Place a rack in the midst of the oven and switch it on to start preheating to 350°F. It’s necessary to have the oven preheated earlier than you set the bread in to bake. Spray a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan frivolously with cooking spray. If you happen to want, you’ll be able to grease the pan with shortening or butter.

Mash bananas. In a big mixing bowl, mash the 4 bananas. I often use a potato masher or pastry cutter; a fork works nicely, too. Scrape the mashed bananas right into a measuring cup to be sure you have 1 ½ cups. Bananas actually range in measurement and you’ll have to take away a little bit or mash a little bit extra to get the correct quantity.

Mix moist elements. Flippantly beat the eggs within the mixing bowl till the whites and yolks are mixed. Add the bananas again into the bowl, then stir within the oil, vanilla, and sugar. The combination needs to be pretty easy and blended collectively.

Add dry elements. Measure out the flour and put it into the bowl proper on prime of the banana combination. Don’t stir it in but. Add the baking powder, baking soda, and salt to the flour and stir it frivolously simply to combine the dry elements collectively a bit. If you happen to want, you could possibly combine the dry elements in a separate bowl first, however then you definately’d have one other bowl to clean. As soon as the dry elements are blended collectively, stir the banana combination and flour combination collectively till simply mixed. You shouldn’t see any dry clumps of flour however don’t stir the batter greater than crucial.

Add chocolate chips. Fold within the chocolate chips. Scrape the batter into the ready loaf tin and easy the highest. Sprinkle with extra chocolate chips.

Bake. Put the bread into the preheated oven to bake for about 45 minutes. Check the bread with a toothpick inserted into the middle. It ought to come out pretty clear with no batter sticking to the toothpick. If you happen to occur to stab a chocolate chip, attempt one other spot.

Cool. Let the bread cool within the pan for 10 minutes or so. Tip the pan to take away the bread and funky it proper aspect up on a wire rack earlier than slicing. As you’ll be able to see from the images, the chocolate chips in my bread have been a little bit smooth and gooey but. We adore it that manner however the chocolate chips will agency up when the bread is totally cool.

Recipe Variations

• Add-ins: Substitute milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips, in the event you like. Peanut butter chips or butterscotch ideas would give your bread a completely totally different vibe. I’ve additionally made this recipe with a cup of unsweetened flaked coconut and ½ cup mini semi candy chocolate chips and that’s an incredible mixture, too. Add toasted pecans or walnuts in the event you like.
• Double chocolate banana bread: To actually go along with the chocolate vibe, you could possibly make my chocolate banana bread with added chocolate chips.
• Make muffins: Divide the batter into 12 massive greased muffin tins. Bake the muffins in a preheated oven (350°F) for 14 to 16 minutes (seek advice from my recipe for banana bread muffins).

Retailer: Cool the bread fully earlier than storing in an hermetic container or resealable bag. You possibly can retailer it complete or sliced for accessibility. It would carry on the counter for a number of days. In case your kitchen could be very heat, retailer it within the fridge.

Freeze: This banana bread freezes nicely too, for as much as 3 months. I nearly all the time double the recipe and wrap one loaf in foil, put it in a freezer zip-top bag and freeze, both complete or sliced for straightforward entry.

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• Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick spray, put aside.

• In a big bowl, mash bananas (I take advantage of a potato masher). Measure the mashed bananas to be sure you have 1 ½ cups.

  1 ½ cups mashed ripe bananas

• Add sugar, oil, vanilla, and eggs. Stir nicely to mix.

  ¾ cup granulated sugar, ⅓ cup canola or vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 massive eggs, frivolously overwhelmed

• On prime of the banana combination, add flour. Make a small nicely within the flour and add baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir gently to combine the dry elements into one another on prime of the moist elements; then stir every little thing collectively till batter is simply mixed.

  2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt

• Fold in chocolate chips.

  1 cup semi candy chocolate chips

• Scrape batter into ready loaf pan, smoothing prime. Evenly sprinkle mini chocolate chips on prime of batter, if utilizing.

  ¼ cup mini chocolate chips, elective (for topping)

• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the center comes out clear or with a number of crumbs clinging.

• Switch loaf pan to a wire rack and let cool 10 minutes. Take away the bread from the pan and funky fully earlier than slicing.

• This bread freezes nicely. I nearly all the time double the recipe (simply be sure you have a variety of ripe bananas!) and wrap one loaf in foil, then put in a freezer zip-top bag and freeze.
• Recipe revised and retested 9/2024. Beforehand printed as Wholesome Complete Wheat Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Coconut.

Serving: 1slice, Energy: 339kcal, Carbohydrates: 50g, Protein: 6g, Fats: 15g, Saturated Fats: 8g, Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g, Monounsaturated Fats: 4g, Trans Fats: 0.02g, Ldl cholesterol: 38mg, Sodium: 267mg, Potassium: 345mg, Fiber: 6g, Sugar: 25g, Vitamin A: 87IU, Vitamin C: 3mg, Calcium: 37mg, Iron: 2mg

Vitamin data is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

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