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Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

If you're looking for a delicious, simple dessert recipe that's easy to make then you're in the right place! This easy-to-follow tutorial will have you savouring this homemade banana bread with chocolate chips in no time.
Servings 1 small loaf
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes

Equipment

  • 2 Mixing Bowl
  • 1 Whisk
  • 1 Spatula
  • 1 1lb tin If you use 2lb tin, double all the ingredients

Ingredients

  • 2 Bananas very ripe (around 220g) Optional: keep half banana for topping.
  • 40 g Unsalted Butter
  • 45 g Light Brown Sugar
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Bean Paste optional
  • 15 g Honey
  • 1 Egg
  • 100 g Plain Flour
  • ½ tsp Baking Soda
  • 50 g Chocolate Chips Extra for topping

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 190°C.
  • In a mixing bowl, mash 1 and a half bananas. Depending on how you like the texture of the banana, you could do this roughly and leave some lumps.
    Also if you would rather mash both bananas you can do this too and leave out the topping.
  • In a separate mixing bowl add the unsalted butter and light brown sugar. Using a whisk mix it until becomes creamy. Next add the salt, vanilla bean paste, honey and egg then mix again. The mixture may appear to separate but this is ok.
    mix sugar, butter together
  • Next, add the mashed banana and mix again. It may look curdled, again this is fine.
    Add the banana in to the bowl
  • Sieve the plain flour and baking soda into the mixture and use the spatula gently fold until it's mixed thoroughly( be careful, don't over work it). Next add the chocolate chips and mix again.
    Add the plain flour and chocholate chips
  • Transfer the batter into the tin with the baking paper. Spread the batter evenly and smooth the top. Take the half banana cut into half, length ways and remove the skin. The the banana halves on the batter, then add the chocolate chips.
    Put the tin into the oven and reduce the temperature to 180°C cook for 40 - 45 minutes or until top become golden brown and it is cooked through.
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  • Once you have removed the bread form the oven, give the tin a gentle tap on the work surface, this will allow any extra steam to be released. Then remove the bread from the tin and leave it to cool down on a wire rack.
    banana bread
  • You can eat it once it has cooled down. But I recommend letting it rest one night in a dark and cool place. The next day the bread will have a deeper, richer flavour.
    banana bread

Video

Notes

1: The Bananas I used where quite large, you can use any size bananas just make sure the peeled weight is roughly the same.
Don't mash banana too early, just do it before you start or it will become black quickly. 
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: baking, banana bread, banana cake