Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is wonderfully moist and loaded with ripe bananas and melty morsels of chocolate chips. This banana chocolate chip bread is a real treat.
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 c unsalted butter, (8 Tbsp), softened
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, divided
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 c all-purpose flour
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Preheat Oven to 350˚F. Butter and flour a bread loaf pan (9.25"L x 5.25"W x 2.75"D)
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In a mixing bowl using paddle attachment, cream together 1/2 cup softened butter and 2/3 cup sugar. Add 2 lightly beaten eggs.
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Mash bananas with a fork until consistency of chunky applesauce and add them to the mixing bowl along with 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. Mix until blended.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp salt. Add to mixing bowl and mix until incorporated.
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Fold in 3/4 cup chocolate chips then transfer to prepared bread pan.
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Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup chocolate over the top and bake at 350˚F for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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Let banana bread rest 10 min before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
