This chocolate banana bread recipe is a real winner. It is easy to make and is so gooey and delicious. Beats a dessert any day. Great with overripe bananas.
Course Breads/Cakes
Cuisine American
Keyword chocolate banana bread
recipe chocolate banana bread
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 55 minutesminutes
Servings 12slices
Calories 216kcal
Author Rachna Parmar
Ingredients
Wet ingredients
1cupbanana puree or 2 ripe bananas mashed
¾cupbrown sugar or jaggery
⅓cupbutter salted
1egg beaten
1tsp.vanilla essence
Dry ingredients
1.5cupall-purpose flour or processed flour
¼cupunsweetened cocoa I used Hershey’s
1tsp.baking soda
½cupdark chocolate chips or chocolate shavings
Instructions
Mix together the wet ingredients. Mash the ripe bananas really well to form a puree without any lumps. Now add jaggery or brown sugar and melted butter to it and mix well.
Add the beaten egg and vanilla essence and mix. You don’t have to mix too long just enough for the ingredients to be incorporated.
Now mix the dry ingredients together – all purpose flour, cocoa and baking soda. You can even sieve them together to mix them well.
Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ones and fold till incorporated. Don’t overmix.
Add the chocolate chips or chocolate shavings and mix again.
Now spoon into a greased bread tin or mould. Grease it with butter or oil.
Pre heat your oven to 180 deg C for 8 minutes.
Keep your bread tin in the middle rack and bake for about 45 minutes. I poke a toothpick and check to the centre. Check if it comes out clean. But the only hitch is that the chocolate chips or shavings will leave gooey places so poke in two three spots to confirm.
Cool it on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.
Now cut it into slices.
Notes
1. Use only overripe bananas. This recipe is perfect to use with bananas that have gone really brown.2. In case you are using unsalted butter, add ½ tsp. of salt to your recipe.3. I did not have chocolate chips hence used chocolate shavings or use dark chocolate broken into pieces.4. You can also press the bread to check for doneness. It should feel firm.