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
Hummus!
Wow, this sounds great. I’d make cakes.
Omg! This would make my life 10 times easier. I dont have a blender or mixer. And so manually mixing cookies is so hard. But thr main thing i would cook is the chicken torrilla soup. But yea that looks amazing.
This is so cool! I think I would love to use it to simplify making pasteries as that jot something that I usually do! YUM!!
I would love to try to make soup! This sounds so cool!!
Wow! I’d love to use the Prep&Cook to chop and then cook ingredients for/in chili!
Veggie burgers
I would make some amazing soups or stews! Pureed veggie soups especially because of saving all that time transferring the hot batches to the blender or food processor!
This is soo cool! I’d make falafel and make it more often since this could save me lots of time! 🙂
Hi Gaby,
I think Risotto would be a great addition to the Prep n Cook – since Risotto is something that needs little attention but a constant stirring and heat, it would cook really well in here. You would even maybe saute the mushrooms before hand, and add everything in together when you are toasting the rice, I would be SO excited to make your wild mushroom risotto in this. 🙂
Your recipe for Slutty brownies!
I would love to try out all the options! But first I would love to make soup in it! Or that delicious looking double chocolate chip banana bread
Chocolate chip cookies!
I am thinking risotto would be awesome. Or bread so it could just mix and mix. The possibilities are endless!
Hi Gaby!
First of all I wanted to say my roommate and I are obsessed with you and love how positive and sweet you are. Not to mention you’re a fabulous foodie! We make your “penne with 5 cheeses” pasta at least twice a month and we’re OBSESSED… We’re also dying to try the spring pea pizza you posted last week. It looks absolutely delish!
Okay, tangent over, (sorry, fangirl moment!) back to the question:
Since summer is soon arriving and I have a major sweet tooth, do you have any great dessert recommendations using a food processor? I’m an ice cream freak so anything cold/yummy/easy will do.
Thanks Gaby! Keep being you <3
Hi Gaby!
I think a panang curry would be delish and simple in this!
Hi Gaby! first off i LIVE for snapisodes 🙂 i’m thinking this high tech gadget would be great for cookie recipes, brownies (snickerdoodle brownies!!) , chili, just about anything! would LOVE to win this 🙂
Would love to use this for soups and stews!
Cant wait to make this!! I would use this to make those coconut chocolate chip cookies from snapisode the other week! They are still on my list to make!
This sounds like it would be perfect for risotto!! Especially your mushroom risotto!
I would simplify Salsa and double chocolate cookies!
I love to make soups for easy dinner turned into even easier lunch-this would make the whole process even more seamless. Thanks so much for having such great giveaways!
Definitely baking bc I don’t have a stand up mixer and this would be amazing!
Um well first I would use it to make this insanely good looking Banana Bread and then I would love to make all the soups!
Amazing – I’ve never heard of this! I would make a Nutella bread that I’ve been wanting to try but haven’t made it due to the time it would take. This item would make it a snap.
Steamed veggies!! I hate to say it, but I’m always way too lazy to prepare veggies so I just end up not eating them lol.
Well, it would have to be one of your recipes for sure! Anything chocolate would be at the top of my list!
What a cool equipment! I would make a french onion soup! Or that banana bread really… 🙂
Any bread item would be awesome to make with this! It would definitely let me get into baking more.
What wouldn’t I make with this?! I’m envisioning making an amazing arrabiata sauce and having good friends over to share it with!
I’d love to make pasta e fagoli in it.
Soups, stew, breads and everything else! This looks so cool!
Oooo I’d make soup!!
Chocolate chip cookies! Gotta go classic when trying out new equipment.
I would totally love to make a Mediterranean omelette it’s always so hard to whisk in the eggs flowers and other ingredients but this that bad big things would definitely be amazing.
So my girlfriend loves to make your recipes. She would adore this. This would simplify every meal she makes including her soups and stews. Also I would love if she made me some banana bread.
Wow so many possibilities! I think the first thing I’d make with it would have to be a batch of chocolate chocolate chunk brownies!! I’m sure you understand why!
I would love to make lasagna or anything Italian my favorite
Double Chocolate Chip always and forever!!
I’m thinking buttermilk cookies! Can you make frosting in there? Hmm.
Hi Gaby! Omg! First of all, just have to tell you that I love you your snapisodes. I look forward to them every week! But what can you not make in this! I would absolutely love it for soup and baking! Chocolate chip cookies for days !
Yum, all baked goods!
So. Much. Pesto.
This is so cool! Would totally use this to perfect my chili recipes — roasted tomatillo and white chicken chili and my classic chili with beer!
This banana bread looks and sounds amazing!
I have really been into making zucchini bread lately! So I think I’d use it for that!
I would try to make a risotto!
What an awesome kitchen tool!! I would definitely use it to make sauces, soups, and stews!
Cheesecake!