Chocolate Banana Bread
Moist and Chocolatey Banana bread with Pecans and Dates. The brown sugary, caramel and buttery flavor makes this bread a family favorite.
Ingredients
- 4 Bananas very ripe and mashed
- 1½ cups Flour sifted
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1/3 cup Melted Butter
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/3 cup Granulated Sugar
- 3/4 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips (optional)
- 1 cup Pecans chopped (optional)
- 1/2 cup Dates chopped (optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
- Mash the bananas in medium sized bowl if you havent already. My toddler loves taking over this step.
- In a bowl, sift the flour, add baking soda and salt.
- Now to the mashed bananas add the egg, vanilla essence, melted butter and both sugars.
- Pour the dry mixture over the banana mixture and mix it all up.
- Stir in the chocolate chips, pecans and dates if using any. I almost always make this Banana bread with the chocolate chips and pecans.
- Pour the batter in the prepared loaf pan and bake for 40-50 minutes. Set the timer to 40 minutes and insert a toothpick when timer goes off and bake until toothpick comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes then remove from pan and let cool completely.