Description
Recipe for moist chocolate chip bread with banana. For a 10 inch / 25 cm loaf pan (about 10-12 slices)
Ingredients
- 115 g (1 stick = 1/2 cup) Butter - softened
- 100 g (1/2 cup) Sugar - granulated
- 50 g (1/3 cup) Brown sugar
- 2 Eggs - room temperature
- 1 tsp. liquid vanilla extract
- 120 ml (1/2 cup) Buttermilk - or 1 plain yogurt
- 3 ripe bananas - about 360 g
- 195 g (1 1/2 cups)Flour - all purpose
- 1 tsp baking soda or instead baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 140 g (3/4 cup) Chocolate chips - semi-sweet
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F / 180°C and grease or line a 9 - 10 inch / 25 cm long loaf pan.
- Place the banana chunks in a small bowl and mash them with a fork.
- In a large bowl, place the softened butter with the white sugar and brown sugar and mix with an electric mixer for about 2-3 minutes until smooth.
- Add the eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk and mix again with an electric mixer for 1 minute to incorporate.
- Then add the mashed bananas and mix for a few moments.
- Finish by adding the dry ingredients, flour, baking soda (or baking powder), pinch of salt and 3/4 of the chocolate chips and mix with a soft spatula or a wooden spoon to incorporate them and until you get a homogeneous paste.
- Pour the mixture into the lined loaf pan and pour the remaining chocolate chips on top of the batter.
- Bake for about 50-55 minutes until golden brown on top. Check for doneness with a knife blade or toothpick by dipping it into the cake, it should come out clean or with some crumbs.
- Let the cake cool completely in the loaf pan before removing it from the pan and serving.
Notes
Storage: For about 5 days at room temperature in a storage box with a lid and protected from humidity. You can also keep it in the refrigerator for about 1 week.
In the freezer: Put it in a storage box and keep it for up to 3 months in the freezer.
You can replace the buttermilk with plain yogurt, sour cream or Greek yogurt.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: bread, dessert, cake
- Cuisine: american
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 191
- Sugar: 11
- Sodium: 146
- Fat: 8
- Saturated Fat: 5
- Carbohydrates: 27
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 3
- Cholesterol: 46