Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
A soft and easy to make chocolate chip banana bread recipe!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr 5 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- ¼ cup unsalted butter (melted)
- ¼ cup avocado, canola or vegetable oil
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 ½ cups mashed bananas (this was about 3 large bananas or 4 small for me)
- 2 large eggs (lightly beaten room temperature preferred)
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Coarse sugar for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and prepare a 9x5x3" pan by greasing and flouring the sides and 1" up the bottom of the pan. shake out excess flour. Set aside.
- 2
Combine melted butter, canola oil, and sugars. Stir in 1 ½ cups mashed bananas
- 3
Stir in eggs and vanilla extract.
- 4
In a separate, medium-sized bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and stir until well-combined
- 5
Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet until just combined -- do not over-mix. A few streaks of flour remaining in the batter is OK.
- 6
Gently fold in chocolate chips.
- 7
Pour batter evenly into prepared baking pan and sprinkle generously with sugar (if desired).
- 8
Bake in 350F (175C) oven for 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean/without wet batter.
- 9
Allow to cool for 10 minutes before running a knife around the inside of the pan and inverting onto a cooling rack to cool before slicing and serving.