Double Chocolate Banana Bread
This is a super moist, flavorful, and delicious banana bread for all chocolate lovers. It is perfectly sweet, soft, and super delicious banana bread without adding butter or eggs.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup All purpose flour
- 1/4 cup Cocoa powder/Cacao powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 cup Brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Chocolate chips
- 3 large Bananas 1.5 cup mashed
- 1/3 cup Milk full fat
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1.5 tsp Apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup Oil
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix together apple cider vinegar and milk, and set aside for 10 minutes to curdle.
- Line the bottom of a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan with parchment paper and set aside. Slightly overhang the paper on the sides - it helps to remove the bread easily from the pan.
- Preheat the oven to 350℉/180℃
- In a mixing bowl, mix together the dry ingredients - all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder, and salt.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas with a fork.
- Add the brown sugar to the mashed bananas and mix them together.
- Combine some oil with the mashed bananas and mix everything well.
- Transfer the curdled milk, gently mix with the banana mixture, and add some vanilla extract.
- Combine the dry ingredients into 2 batches to the wet ingredients and gently mix. Do not over mix the batter.
- Add half of the chocolate chips to the bread batter, mix, and transfer it to a lined baking tray.
- Evenly spread the batter with a spatula and sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips all over the top of the bread.
- Gently tap the pan 1-2 times on a countertop and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until the bread comes out clean when a toothpick is inserted in the middle.
- Transfer the baking tray onto a cooling rack for about 15 minutes.
- Gently lift the parchment paper from a baking pan and let the bread cool completely on a cooling rack.
- Transfer the bread to a cutting board and evenly cut into 12 pieces.
Notes
- Measure the flour correctly while baking for the best results. Take a spoon and lightly spoon the flour into your measuring cup. Use a knife to level off the top of the flour. Never scoop flour directly into your measuring cup from a flour bag/container since you will end up with significantly more flour.
- Use overripe bananas for this recipe - bananas which have dark brown spots on them.They are sweeter and a great way of using them in a bread for super moist double chocolate banana bread.
- For making the bread rich in taste, do not skip adding full fat milk in the recipe.
- Bake the double chocolate banana bread for 50-60 minutes, depending on your oven. Make sure to check the bread after 50 minutes by inserting a toothpick in the center and It should come out clean.
- Do not over bake the bread or it will turn very dark and turn a little bitter in taste.
- Let the bread cool down completely before slicing so the bread slices will not fall apart while cutting them.