The BEST Chocolate Banana Bread

Chocolate Streusel topped Chocolate Banana Bread

The BEST Chocolate Banana Bread

Course: Dessert, Quick Bread

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chocolate banana bread, Chocolate streusel bread, Double Chocolate banana bread

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 50

Servings: servings

Calories: 465kcal

Author: Colleen Kennedy

There is nothing like a good quick bread and when it involves bananas AND chocolate, its epic! Give this Chocolate Banana Bread recipe a try.

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Ingredients

½ cup butter, room temperature
¼ cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
½ TBS vanilla
1 egg plus 1 yolk
2 whole peeled bananas, browned
1 cup flour, plus 2 TBS
½ cup cocoa powder (I use Hershey's Special Dark, which is 100% cocoa however you can choose to use what you have on-hand)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup chocolate chips, divided (¾ cup and ¼ cup)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In your mixing bowl, cream butter, sugars and vanilla until smooth.
Add in egg and yolk and mix until smooth, scraping down the bowl as needed.
Add in your bananas (peeled) and mix until smooth. IF bananas are more on the firm size, mash them well first with a potato masher before adding.
Add in the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and mix until smooth.
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Line a 9 x 5 loaf pan with parchment paper, spray it lightly with cooking spray scrape in the batter and then bake as is, top with additional chocolate chips or top with the streusel (recipe in note section) and bake for 40-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out mostly dry.
Once removed from the oven, allow loaf to cool for 20-30 minutes and then lift out the loaf by pulling the parchment paper. Gently peel the paper from the loaf and either enjoy a slice warm or cool entirely and enjoy later.

Notes

If you choose to top your Chocolate Banana Bread with the Chocolate Streusel Pictured here, the ingredients needed are:

¼ cup flour

¼ cup brown sugar, packed

1 TBS cocoa (I use Hershey's Special dark 100% cocoa however you can also use whatever you have on hand)

2 ½ TBS butter, room temperature

¼ cup chocolate chips

Combine flour, sugar, cocoa and butter in a bowl or food processor and mix with your fingertips or a pastry blender or pulse until crumbly. Sprinkle mixture evenly overtop the banana bread dough then bake as instructed.

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