Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (Printable)
Soft, flavorful banana bread studded with melted chocolate chips. Ideal for breakfast or an afternoon treat.
# What You'll Need:
→ Wet Ingredients
01 - 3 ripe bananas, mashed
02 - ⅓ cup unsalted butter, melted
03 - ½ cup granulated sugar
04 - ¼ cup light brown sugar
05 - 2 large eggs
06 - 1 tsp vanilla extract
→ Dry Ingredients
07 - 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
08 - 1 tsp baking soda
09 - ½ tsp salt
→ Mix-ins
10 - ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
# Directions:
01 - Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper.
02 - In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Stir in melted butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract until well combined.
03 - In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
04 - Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and stir gently until just combined—do not overmix.
05 - Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Optionally, sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top.
06 - Bake for 50–60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
07 - Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.
# Cooking Tips:
01 -
- It transforms those sad spotted bananas into something your family will actually fight over the last slice of
- The texture is impossibly moist without any complicated techniques or ingredients
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- Overmixing at the flour stage will make your bread tough and rubbery so stop as soon as you see the last flour streaks disappear
- The toothpick test is crucial because different ovens run differently and you want to catch it at that perfect moist point not dry
03 -
- Freeze overripe bananas if you cannot bake right away just peel and mash them first then freeze in 1-cup portions
- Checking the bread at the 50-minute mark prevents overbaking because it continues cooking in the hot pan after you remove it from the oven