Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
This Banana Chocolate Chip Bread has the perfect balance of chocolate and banana! It’s so moist, dense, and full of true banana flavor with mini shots of chocolate in each bite. It's also healthy and made vegan, using one bowl, no mixer and easy to throw together without a lot of fuss.
Servings: 8 Servings
Ingredients
- 4 medium ripe bananas or 3 medium bananas + ¼ cup applesauce
- ¼ cup olive oil or oil of choice or melted vegan butter
- ¼ cup unsweetened non-dairy milk
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup brown sugar Zulka is a good choice
- 2 tsp maple syrup or vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour or gluten-free 1 for1 cup flour like Bob’s Red Mill
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips we used Enjoy life Mini Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spray a 9×5 loaf pan with nonstick spray and line with parchment paper and spray again, set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas using a fork or masher. Add the brown sugar, oil, vanilla/maple syrup, and almond milk, and whisk together until combined.
- Add in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon, and use a wooden spoon to mix until just incorporated. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Transfer the batter to your prepared pan.
- Bake for about 50 - 65 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with just a couple crumbs.
- Make sure bread has baked through on top of bread.