Secretly Healthy Chocolate Banana Bread
Healthy Chocolate Banana Bread - if you love making banana inspired recipes, try out this fudgy, easy and secretly Healthy Chocolate Banana Bread. The consistency is almost like a fudgy brownie and it will become your favorite thing to bake when you have extra ripe bananas!
Equipment
- loaf pan
- mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup organic cocoa powder (100% pure)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (or vanilla sugar)
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup semi-sweet dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 350°F. Can 9x5 inch load pan with parchment paper for easy removal. You can also spray the pan with extra cooking spray, but parchment paper did the job perfectly.
- Mash bananas in the bottom of a large bowl. Make sure the mixture is even.
- Melt the butter and mix it in with the bananas. Add brown sugar, egg, and vanilla and mix.
- Place baking soda, salt, flour and cocoa powder in a sifter or fine-mesh strainer and sift over wet ingredients to get rid of any and all lumps.
- Stir wet and dry ingredients together until the mixture is smooth.
- Mix in semi-sweet chocolate chips. Stir well.
- Pour into prepared pan and bake 55 to 65 minutes, until a tester or toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out batter-free.
- Cool in pan for 10 to 15 minutes, then run a knife around the edge and invert it out onto a cooling rack.