Chocolate Banana Loaf with Chocolate Chips
This is one of my son’s favourite cakes, and that was even before I adjusted the recipe because I found it a bit dry. He really can’t get enough of this!
He wouldn’t normally get banana cake in the middle of the summer when there are so many other fruits out there but I had been slightly over-enthusiastic with summer fruit picking and buying, and overlooked the bananas. And slightly over-enthusiastic with bulk buying chocolate chips. Not sure I will ever get through the 1.59kg bag I found at Costco…
Did you know you can put over-ripe bananas in the freezer to use another day? Leave them in their skins but put them in a plastic bag. When you want to use them just take them out to defrost in their skins. They will have a very strange texture but can be used in baking in exactly the same way as fresh ones. I put some in the freezer and made this banana loaf with the rest.
We had actually eaten almost half of the loaf before it was cool. We had to wait a couple of minutes between cutting each slice for it to cool down enough to get a knife through it…
Recipe
Ingredients
200g SR flour
30g cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
55g soft brown sugar
55g golden caster sugar
150g chocolate chips
85g butter, melted
2 eggs
225g ripe banana, mashed (2 to 3 large ones)
Method
Set the oven to 180ºC. Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin.
Measure all the dry ingredients, including the chocolate chips, into a large mixing bowl.
Add the melted butter, eggs and banana and mix to combine.
Pour into the loaf tin and level gently
Ready to bake
It will take around 50 minutes to an hour to bake but check after about 45 minutes and cover with aluminium foil if it is starting to brown too much.
Check if it is ready by inserting a skewer into the middle. If it comes out dry it is done.
Allow to cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
Chocolate banana loaf cooling – can you resist?
lovinghomemade 
Wow! This looks and sounds so great! I would love to try this recipe out!
Hope you do!
Think I’ll have to try this
Hope you enjoy it!
Looks really decadent!
Nothing like adding chocolate and more chocolate!
I just had banana chocolate chip bread today for the first time! It was so good and this looks delicious! I didn’t know you could/how to freeze bananas. I am going to do this! Thanks!
Yummy!
Bananas go dark and mushy very rapidly here in the tropics, so I have some in the freezer always. They make great smoothies too.
Smoothies are a good idea – I put bananas in the freezer but rarely remember to use them up!
Wondered why it looked so dark – choc chips. I make banana bread each week so will try this out 🙂
Hope you like it and that you actually get to eat it before Ruby gets hold of it!
Good point, will batten down the hatches and double lock the child gate!!!
I’m always on the lookout for a good banana bread recipe, and of course you will use up the chocolate chips! (I’m amazed, and a little worried, about how much flour and butter I get through…)
And the sugar! I could start a shop with the number of different types I have…
Me too! Occupational hazard of food blogging?
Wow, this seems hard to resist…need to try it out pretty soon.. 🙂
Hope you enjoy it, thank you!