EASY CHOCOLATE BANANA BREAD RECIPE
The most delicious double chocolate banana bread! The texture is perfectly moist and tender, with gooey chunks of chocolate and bananas. Plus, it's super easy to make!
Servings 1 Loaf
Ingredients
- 195 g AP Flour 1½ cup
- 40 g Cacao Powder ½ cup
- 1 t Baking Soda
- 1/4 t Salt
- 100 g Brown Sugar ½ cup
- 50 g White Sugar ¼ cup
- 200 g Yogurt, 4% or more fat, or Greek yogurt ¾ cup
- 3 Bananas
- 2 Eggs
- 50 ml Vegetable Oil (e.g. Grapeseed, Sunflower) ¼ cup
- 85 g Dark Chocolate, plus extra for topping
- 1 t Instant Coffee or a shot of espresso
- 1 t Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F(180C).
- Line a 10" by 4.5"(25x11cm) loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a bowl sift the flour and cacao powder and espresso powder. Add the baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- Whisk eggs with sugar till foamy. Add yogurt, oil, and a shot of espresso (if not using espresso powder), then mix.
- Mash the banana; leave some bigger chunks for extra flavor. Mix them into the batter.
- To the wet mixture add the dry ingredients and gently fold.
- While there is still dry pockets in the batter, fold in the chopped chocolate. Leave some for topping the batter.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared pan. Top it off with the extra chopped chocolate. Bake at 350F(180C) on the middle rack for about 55-60 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean.