Quarantine gave me some time to hone in my baking and cooking skills — two things I rarely have done in the past few years. Somehow, I always found our bananas going bad before we were able to finish them. Fortunately, that meant I was making banana bread every couple of weeks, and that gave me an opportunity to tweak ingredients and quantities to create the perfect banana bread recipe! Sharing it with you now so you can also make use of those very, very ripe bananas and enjoy some warm baked goodies while you are at it. Let me know if you try it and what you think!
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
October 19, 2020
Quarantine cooking gave me a chance to perfect my banana bread recipe! I'm not a huge fan of banana walnuts and growing up we didn't have walnuts in the house, because my brother was allergic. So here's a fun chocolatey version of banana bread!
Persons
6
Prep Time
25 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
Total Time
1 hour, 25 minutes
Notes
You can also drizzle some melted chocolate on top to give the bread some extra sweetness. Serve when fresh!
Ingredients
- BREAD INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 very ripe bananas
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
TOPPING INGREDIENTS- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- For the topping: mix all dry ingredients, then fold in butter.
- For the bread: mix flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Cream butter and sugars [brown and white together] until fluffy.
- Add eggs to butter and sugar mix and keep stirring.
- Mash bananas and with a wooden spoon, stir into butter, egg, and sugar mix.
- Add yogurt and vanilla and stir.
- Slowly stir in dry ingredients.
- Stir in chocolate chips and pour into a pan
- Sprinkle topping onto batter
- Bake for 45-55 minutes. Check the batter at 45 minutes and keep in oven longer if necessary.