Chocolate Chip Banana Bread – A Beautiful Mess

This chocolate chip banana bread is SO scrumptious. It has a gentle and moist crumb with a barely crunchy exterior and this recipe doesn’t skimp on the chocolate. When I’ve ripe bananas available, that is what I crave!

This chocolate chip banana bread requires 4-5 ripe bananas, and I’ll share the quickest solution to ripen bananas if yours are on the inexperienced facet. You too can use quite a lot of various kinds of chocolate chips on this recipe relying on what you will have and what you favor.

Associated: Subsequent up, attempt our One-Banana Banana Bread, Chocolate Chip Bread, Zucchini Bread, or Poppy Seed Bread.

Substances

• Bananas
• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Chocolate chips
• Walnuts (non-obligatory)
• Butter
• Brown sugar
• Eggs
• Greek yogurt
• Vanilla extract

Instructions

In a bowl, peel and mash the ripe bananas with a fork.

In one other bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking soda and salt. Stir the walnuts (if utilizing) and 1/4 cup of the chocolate chips into this dry combination, reserving the remainder for the highest.

In a big mixing bowl, cream collectively the butter and sugar. Then stir within the eggs, Greek yogurt and vanilla extract. Now add the mashed bananas and dry ingredient combination to the bowl. Stir to mix.

Grease or spray a loaf pan properly. You may additionally select to line with parchment paper. Pour within the batter and prime with the remaining chocolate chips and a bit flaky sea salt.

Bake at 350°F for 50-55 minutes. Permit to chill for 10-Quarter-hour within the pan earlier than making an attempt to take away.

Learn how to shortly ripen bananas

You may be taught the best way to shortly ripen bananas within the oven or in a day or two right here. However the absolute quickest approach is within the microwave. Merely use a fork to poke a number of holes everywhere in the banana after which microwave on excessive in 30-second intervals till softened. Whereas this methodology is quick, it additionally isn’t completely ripened throughout, as microwaves are fairly infamous for creating scorching spots and being considerably inconsistent.

Serving Ideas

I really like this chocolate chip banana bread alongside a cup of espresso or cozy beverage. Listed below are a number of favorites.

Ideas & Notes

• Tossing the chocolate chips in with the dry substances helps to make sure they don’t all sink to the underside of the batter because it bakes.
• You don’t must prime this bread with chocolate chips. You may select to stir all of them into the dry combination after which the batter. I identical to the look of some on prime.
• This recipe wants 2 cups of mashed bananas, which is 4-5 bananas, relying on their dimension.
• You need to use mini chocolate chips, commonplace dimension, darkish chocolate, milk chocolate and even chopped up chocolate bars on this recipe.
• You may retailer uneaten banana bread in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days, without having to refrigerate except you merely choose to eat it chilly.