Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread!! Get ready – you guys are going to be obsessed.
We’ve been baking a LOT these days so let’s get down to business shall we. This double chocolate chip banana bread is fantastic. It’s made in 1 bowl, so super quick and easy. It’s moist and chocolate-y and works for breakfast, snacks and dessert. And it’s obviously stuffed with plenty of chocolate chips because that’s the only smart way to eat banana bread. Then it’s just into a loaf pan and into the oven for about an hour and voila! Easy right? It’s genius if you ask me.
It’s worth noting here (although it’s noted in the recipe) that it’s best to use SUPER ripe bananas for this recipe. So ripe that there are black spots all over the usually yellow banana peels. That means the bananas are going to be sweet and mushy and easy to incorporate into the banana bread.
If you don’t have overly ripe bananas, but you do have yellow bananas on hand, I like to pop them into the freezer for a day to turn them brown. Then just take them out, thaw them out and use for the banana bread as needed!
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Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 4 overripe bananas I like to stick ripe bananas in the freezer and then let them thaw before making banana bread so I always have overripe bananas on hand
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon chocolate extract, vanilla extract works too
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray a 9×5-inch loaf pan with a nonstick baking spray.
- In a large stand mixer, combine the butter and sugar and whip for 2 minutes until combined. Add the egg, scraping down the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is evenly combined. Add the extract and the bananas and mix for 30 seconds. The batter will look a little curdled, this is normal.
- Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and mix for a few seconds until the flour is evenly combines. Add the chocolate chips and give it all a quick stir.
- Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 55 to 65 minutes. Let cool for at least 30 minutes before running a knife around the perimeter of the loaf pan and inverting the banana bread and transferring the loaf onto a cooling rack. Slice and serve as needed.
Photo by Matt Armendariz / Food Styling by Marian Cooper Cains / Recipe from What’s Gaby Cooking
One of the recipes my mom always made growing up is chocolate chip banana bread- I can’t wait to beef it up with double chocolate! Thanks for the recipe, Gaby!
Also, I live in a small post-grad apartment so I really think the All-Clad Prep&Cook would make literally everything I make easier because it would help me save some very precious counter space by combining so many machines in one. I think I can imagine it best helping me make a creamy vegetable soup like butternut squash or split pea- yum!
Would love this machine to make a
Batch of my husbands favorite biscottis – a recipe passed down from his late Grandmother 🙂
Hi gaby thanks for sharing this recipe (which I am going to copy as soon as lent is over – i gave up chocolate) and for the amazing giveaway. I’d like to simplify creamy soup recipes such as korean pumpkin soup.
Thanks!
I am a baker at heart, so I would probably make scones!
Pastries!! I am so intimidated by most Pastry recipes. I would love a machine that could simplify matters.
Love to use it for a pot pie!
Chocolate chip cookies or my pumpkin bread!
Cream of zucchini soup!
Black bean burgers, nom!
I’d love to make all the soups in it!!!! But, especially cream-based soups, like Broccoli Chedder & Potato!
Would try my Mother-in=law recipes from Croatia. Making this bread tonight
I’d love to make breads and soups!
Your double chocolate banana bread, OBVIOUSLY 😉
Your double chocolate banana bread, OBVI 😉
I would love to make carrot cake & breads & soups galore with this baby.
I would love to use it to make sauce!!
Of course I would use this high tech kitchen gadget for so many other of my baking and cooking creations in the kitchen, but the first I would make would be vegan gluten free cinnamon buns. I would grind my oats and almonds down to flour in order to make my dough and roll it out. Then I would blend the filling which is just dates and cinnamon. Next I would make the icing which calls for cashews. Lastly, I would put the cinnamon buns into this all in one kitchen appliance and use it as a dehydrator. Using the machine to its fullest potentional!
Pasta dough, pizza dough, cookie dough, ALL THE DOUGHS!
Wow!! Love this. Risotto 🙂
This is amazing! I would definitely do puréed soups and sauces in it.
Your Banana Bread for sure!!
Would like to use for chocolate ganaches!
a stew and pizza dough!
i would love to use it to simplify breads and meatballs!
Our family is making more healthy meals at home and we make steamed vegetables and fish a few times a week. This would be a huge time saver!
Double Chocolate Chip Banana would have to be the first recipe I’d make! Looks fabulousss!!
How to pick just one?! Pizza dough, cinnamon roll dough, all of the baked goods, soups, ALL OF THINGS EVER TO EAT.
I would make homemade hummus and pesto!!! We’re putting a food processor on our wedding registry for that very purpose, but this would be 100x better!
I didn’t even realize this was a thing! I would definitely perfect tofu meatballs with this baby
Would love this for E V E R Y T H I N G ! !
Prefer single chocolate vs double chocolate batch with bananas. But plain double chocolate works for me! Thanks Gaby!
This thing looks like a beast! This would be perfect for any baked goods like cakes, tarts, and crusts. I will have to look into these, they would cut down on so much space in the kitchen! I would make a million easy soups with this All-Clad Prep and Cook, and probably start making more stews and sauces for my dad! Wow!
I would simplify my gumbo recipe! And would have to try it with babagonoush . This has to be the coolest appliance I’ve seen !
This would make it easier for me to make my mom’s Jailhouse cake using this allclad mixer.
Simply amazing! Thank you for sharing.
I would love to simplify homemade potatoes au gratin, ratatouille, quinoa chili, a variety of breads and my list goes on.
This gift would definitely spread the love between everyone I nourished.
This would be so awesome for quickly steaming vegetables. The clean-up looks way easy too. Also, just think if you want to make a pureed veggie soup then you could steam/cook the veggies in this first, puree them, and then continue on with making your soup all in one container! I would love to try that! By the way, this chocolate banana nut recipe is amazing!!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Double Chocolate banana bread, for sure!
Why have a never tried chocolate banana bread. Thank you for schooling me!!
I would make this bread!! And then a batch of cookies 🙂
This is awesome! I’d love to make homemade marinara!!
Soup and chili!
Give it to me Gabby! Uh huh Uh huh!
I would use this to simplify an entire meal! I’d use it to make soup as the starter, turkey meatballs as the main course and banana bread pudding as dessert! All in ONE machine! NEED
All my life I’ve been missing out on double chocolate chip banana bread! And to think I considered myself a banana bread fiend. Would definitely try this recipe! And also attempt to perfect my aunts traditional Indonesian marble cake, but let’s be real: it’s always better when she makes it.
I would love it for banana bread, especially with nutella!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
I’ll go for double chocolate chip zucchini bread!
Can’t wait to try this! Would I be able to add fewer/more bananas to the recipe? And what size would you suggest?
Also–I’d definitely use it to help make some yummy creamy cauliflower soup!
I would love to make baked goods, soups, and honestly anything in it! I live in an apartment with a tiny kitchen and I don’t have much storage for many appliances, so having one appliance that can do it all would be awesome!
I would love to simplify a new curry recipe!
I would love to make all types of soups with this! Looks amazing—as does the bread 😛
This is amazing!! The possibilities are endless with what I could make in this All-Clad cooking food processor. I immediately think of all of the yummy soups I could make on a cool spring night 🙂 Sounds great to me. Hope I win, fingers (and toes) crossed!