Do you have overripe bananas laying around? Turn them into Double Chocolate Banana Bread with just a few simple pantry staple ingredients.
It seems like every time I buy bananas I either buy too many or not enough. Some weeks, my kids eat every banana in the house in two days. Other weeks though, they don’t touch any of the bananas.
I never know how many to buy and it drives me insane! Recently, I bought extras because the week before my kids had one of those eat all of the bananas in the house in a day weeks. So you can imagine my disappointment when the following week I returned home with enough bananas to feed an army and my lovely children refused to touch them.
Well, when life gives you overripe bananas, what else can you do other than start baking! First up on my banana baking weekend is double chocolate banana bread.
How to Make Double Chocolate Banana Bread
Baking is not really my strong suit. I tend to prefer savory cooking and super simple desserts as opposed to baking, but this banana bread was just so easy to make!
Ingredients
- 3 overripe bananas
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
If you don’t want to make this double chocolate, or just don’t want to buy the cocoa powder, you can use another 1/4 cup of sugar instead.
Easy Banana Bread
Preheat your oven to 425° and combine all of the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
Peel your bananas and place them in a bowl. Mash the bananas until they are nice and smooth!
When your bananas are mashed, you can start slowly adding your wet ingredients into your dry ingredient bowl.
Combine all of your ingredients until you have a mostly smooth batter. It doesn’t have to be perfectly lump-free. As long as all the ingredients are combined, you are good! Over-mixing is not something you want to do when baking as it can ruin the texture of the finished result.
See, mine is still pretty lumpy! Most of that is the chocolate chips, but some if it is slightly lumpy mashed bananas.
Now you just need to pour that beautiful batter into your bread pan. Make sure that pan is nice and greased first though. Either use cooking spray or rub it down with a little bit of vegetable oil.
Pop your bread in the oven and let it cook at 425° for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, drop the temperature down to 350° and cook for about 30-45 minutes more. Check the doneness of your bread with a toothpick or knife. If it comes out clean, you are done and good to go!
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Double Chocolate Banana Bread
Do you have overripe bananas laying around? Turn them into Double Chocolate Banana Bread with just a few simple pantry staple ingredients.
Ingredients
- 3 overripe bananas
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 425° and combine all of the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
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Peel your bananas and place them in a bowl. Mash the bananas until they are nice and smooth!
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When your bananas are mashed, you can start slowly adding your wet ingredients into your dry ingredient bowl.
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Combine all of your ingredients until you have a mostly smooth batter.
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Pour into a greased bread pan.
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Pop your bread in the oven and let it cook at 425° for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, drop the temperature down to 350° and cook for about 30-45 minutes more.
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Oh yes please, this looks amazing! I love chocolate, so I know I’d be a fan of this.
This recipe is just insane. I mean,what’s better than a banana bread with chocolate?
Dang, this looks amazing. I can’t wait to give it a try.
This bread sounds so yummy. I need to make it right now
This looks so delicious, can’t wait to try out the recipe
Thank you! Let me know what you think once you try it!
This looks so yummy. I made a banana bread recently but it didn’t turn out as good as I would like so thank you for sharing.
Never tried chocolate banana bread before. Actually never heard of it. It looks yummy! I want to try it! Thanks for the recipe!
This sounds amazing. My only concern is that I don’t really like bananas all that much. But everyone always tells me that you can’t taste it as much in banana bread.
You really don’t taste them mush at all, especially with all the chocolate 🙂
I thought that it was complicated to make banana bread at home earlier but thanks for sharing this incredible recipe. Can’t wait to try!
I always thought it would be much more complicated as well, but it was really super easy to make.
Oh la la!! I really enjoy a good banana bread but adding double chocolate to the mix might take things a bit too far. Someone close to me doesn’t like double chocolate as well. Let me see if I can convince them.
I’m salivating over this recipe! Banana bread is a favorite in our house, more so with chocolate!
Ooh how tasty! It seems like everyone I know is making banana bread and this is definitely the best version that I have seen so far. Banana’s and chocolate. What’s not to love?
This looks so good, I love this!
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Lovely
an amazing combo..loved the recipe..Thanks for sharing this..loved it..GOnna surely try this out..
Wow, these are so enticing! I want to know what is the best vegan replacement for eggs, so that I can try these at home!
Thank you! I am not sure about egg replacements but I am sure there are some out there that would work very well!
holy moly this looks AMAZING!!! i bet it leaves your whole house smelling good, too!
This looks so good. It seems like a simple recipe that anyone could follow. Thanks for the recipe.
Thank you! It is super easy to make for sure.
I got to make banana bread for the first time ever last week, I’m hoping that my kids will hold off inhaling all of the bananas so I can make some more.
Looks very filling but very delicious! I would LOVE to try that for myself. saving for later
I’m not overly fond of banana bread, but add chocolate and I’m there! I go through the banana struggle too and will have to try out your recipe when I inevitably end up with lots of overripe bananas!
It sounds delicious enough to motivate me to try it out. Coming weekend I am going to try it out
Let me know what you end up thinking!
This looks great! Me and other people would sure love to try this
I make banana bread for my son, but never tried it with chocolate. Looks delicious! Will try it
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