Dark Chocolate Banana Bread
Banana bread never tasted so good. Adding in dark chocolate chips and dark cocoa powder elevates a plain old dated banana bread recipe to a whole new level.
Servings: 8
Calories: 483kcal
Ingredients
- 3-4 ea Bananas I keep mine frozen
- 8 tbsp Butter melted
- 1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 ea Egg room temperature
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Flour
- 1/2 cup Unsweetened Dark Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt Only use if you used unsalted butter
- 1 cup Dark Chocolate Chips optional
- 1/2 cup Chopped Nuts optional
Instructions
- Gather Your Ingredients
- In a bowl, mash peeled bananas with a fork or with a KitchenAid paddle
- Mix in the egg, sugar, oil, vanilla and butter (just make sure butter is room temp after melting so you don't to cook the egg)
- In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients together; flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda
- Mix ⅓ of the dry ingredients with the wet, scraping down the bowl before adding another scoop of the flour mixture.
- Stir in chocolate chips and nuts (optional)
- Grease 1 large loaf pan or 2 smaller pans (batter should fill ¾ to top)
- Bake 350F until a toothpick comes out clean (just make sure you don't hit a choc chip) 1 large loaf should take 55 -60 minutes and 2 smaller loaves will take approximately 35-40 minutes. Once mine get close, I just shut the oven off and leave the loaves in oven for approximately another 10 min, loaves always come out perfectly moist!
- Let the loaves cool on the counter for 45 min
Notes
This sweet treat has everyone asking if there is more !
Nutrition
Calories: 483kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 404mg | Potassium: 308mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 28g | Vitamin A: 354IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 105mg | Iron: 2mg