Chocolate Banana Nut Bread. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, bananas, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to the banana mixture and mix just until combined.
Beat butter and sugar in a third bowl until light and fluffy. This tastes more like a loaf cake than traditional banana bread, so this will not replace my tried and true banana nut bread recipe. However, this will be a wonderful addition to my repertoire, especially when I want to impress guests with an unique homemade baked treat. You can have Chocolate Banana Nut Bread using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Banana Nut Bread
- You need 1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
- It’s 1 1/3 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 6 tbsp of unsweetened cocoa (heaping).
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 2 large of very ripe bananas.
- You need 2 of eggs, lightly beaten.
- It’s 1/2 cup of vegetable oil (can substitute apple sauce – see note ).
- It’s 2 tbsp of walnuts or nuts, crushed.
A delicious, moist, easy to make chocolate banana quick bread. Made with cocoa powder & applesauce – this decadent bread is almost guilt-free. Hand mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, walnuts, chocolate chips, and vanilla extract in mixing bowl until chocolate chips and walnuts are evenly spread out throughout mixture. In another bowl, mash bananas and add to the main mixing bowl.
Chocolate Banana Nut Bread instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Grease/spray a loaf pan..
- In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt and baking powder..
- In a small bowl mash bananas with fork or your preferred method..
- Mix eggs and oil into bananas. *Note* I have gotten the best results subbing 1/4 cup of the oil with applesauce. So the recipe would use 1/4 oil & 1/4 applesauce if you would like to substitute..
- Add banana mixture into flour mixture. Stir until combined – do not over mix..
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle nuts on top. Bake for 55 – 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean..
- Cool on wire rack for 20 minutes. Remove bread from pan and let it cool completely on wire rack. Enjoy : ).
Combine flour, baking powder and baking soda and add to creamed mixture alternately with banana mixture. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts. THIS is the best banana bread recipe. I actually order large amounts of bananas to sit and turn an ugly shade of black in my fruit bowl just so I can make this Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread. I don't believe bananas ever truly go bad.
