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Chocolate Banana Loaf

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas about 3 medium bananas
  • 1 large egg room temperature
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter melted
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 1 cup light brown sugar packed
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup large semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup walnuts

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick baking spray. Take a strip of parchment paper and fold so that it's as wide as the pan, but goes up and slightly over the ends to provide handles.
  • In a medium bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and sea salt.
  • In a large bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork until no large chunks are left. Add the slightly cooled melted butter, oil, vanilla, and eggs. Stir until fully combined.
  • Whisk in brown sugar until smooth.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and gently fold in with a spatula, careful not to overmix.
  • Stir in 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips and the chopped walnuts.
  • Transfer batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of chocolate chips on top of the bread and a 1/4 cup of the walnut pieces.
  • Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out mostly clean, with no raw batter on it. Start checking on the bread at the 50-minute mark, and if still needs to bake more, check on it every 5 minutes.
  • Once fully baked, remove the pan from the oven and set it on a wire cooling rack. Let the bread cool in the pan for 15 minutes.
  • For easy removal, run a knife around the side edges of the bread and gently remove it from the pan by pulling up on the parchment "handles."
  • Let finish cooling, slice, and devour!

Notes

Original recipe by Sweet and Savory Meals.