I love banana bread because it reminds me of home, baking with my mom as a girl, which is why I wanted to share my favorite chocolate chip banana bread recipe for Mother's Day.
In addition to being a great way to make use of bananas past their prime, it's so easy to make this chocolate chip banana bread recipe your own. You can toss in chopped nuts, raisins, coconut flakes, fresh blueberries or chocolate chips (my favorite) to mix things up. Or, you can forgo the loaf pan and make banana muffins. Looking for something sweeter? Try my chocolate chip banana cake instead. No matter how you make it, this recipe is great to share with people you love alongside a cup of coffee or a tall glass of milk.
When making the banana bread, make sure to use heavily speckled or black bananas - they'll mash easier, improve the texture and add sweetness to the bread. However, if you don't have overripe bananas on hand, the best way to ripen them is to put under-ripe bananas in a brown paper bag for a few days, which will trap the ethylene gas and cause them to ripen more quickly.
While this bread is best when eaten fresh, you can store it once completely cooled by wrapping it tightly in plastic wrap for up to three days.
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 55 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 10 1x
- Cuisine: Bread
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups bread flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 very ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 3 large eggs
- ¾ cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped (optional)
- ½ cup coconut flakes (optional)
- ½ cup raisins (optional)
- 2 teaspoon turbinado sugar
Instructions
- Place oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with vegetable oil spray.
- Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in large bowl.
- Place mashed bananas, melted butter, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla in a separate bowl and mix until combined.
- Pour banana mixture into dry ingredients and stir until just combined, with some streaks of flour remaining. Fold in chocolate chips, walnuts and coconut flakes, if using.
- Scrape batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle turbinado sugar evenly over the top of the loaf.
- Bake 55-75 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let loaf cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool for 1 hour before slicing with a bread knife and serving.
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