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One mini banana chocolate chip loaf on a wooden board.

Chocolate Chip Loaf with Bananas

Beth Lee
Chocolate chip loaf with bananas will always put a smile on your face - whether you make a full size loaf or mini loaves. It was my first independent foray in the kitchen and is still in my baking arsenal to this day! It's such a soul satisfying quick bread - the gooey chocolate chips right out of the oven can't be beat.
4.82 from 16 votes
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course bread
Cuisine American
Servings 12 servings
Calories 292 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ cup butter 1 stick, softened
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup mashed bananas 3 small bananas or 2 large
  • 6 oz chocolate chips about ¾ cup

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour your loaf pan.
  • Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl and whisk to combine.
    Flour for banana bread mixed in white bowl.
  • In large bowl, cream the softened butter and sugar together by hand or with an electric mixer or stand mixer. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat it all together briskly again by hand with a whisk or with an electric hand mixer.
    Creamed butter and sugar in a bowl with wooden spoon.
  • To the butter mixture, add the flour mixture alternately with the bananas, starting and ending with the flour.
    Adding flour to chocolate chip loaf batter.
  • When the flour is just about incorporated, add the chocolate chips and mix just until combined.
  • Pour into your greased and floured loaf pan. For a full size loaf, bake at 350 degrees for 50 – 55 minutes. If using a non-stick darker-colored loaf pan, check for doneness starting at 40 minutes.
    Full chocolate chip loaf with bananas loaf unbaked.
  • OR if making mini loaves, bake for 25 or 30 minutes. They’re done when either a toothpick comes out clean (except for chocolate) or they are light brown on the top.
    Baked mini banana chocolate loaves still in the pan.

Notes

  • Don't throw away your overripe bananas, even if you don't have time to bake. Pop them in the freezer, peel and all and take them out when you are ready to bake.
  • One of my favorite ways to eat this banana chocolate chip loaf is with cream cheese as a sweet, quick breakfast.
  • When you make this easy quick bread, be sure to eat some of the bread shortly after it comes out of the oven when the outside is a bit crunchy, and the inside is still warm and oozing with melted chocolate. You will find yourself saying involuntarily: OMG! Yummy.
  • For fun, you can decorate the top of the loaf/loaves with extra chocolate chips or even some walnuts or pecans.

Nutrition

Calories: 292kcalCarbohydrates: 42gProtein: 4gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 53mgSodium: 239mgPotassium: 100mgFiber: 1gSugar: 23gVitamin A: 325IUVitamin C: 1.7mgCalcium: 27mgIron: 1.3mg
Keyword banana bread, chocolate, quick bread
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