This Double Chocolate Banana Bread - is the banana bread you grew up with, but now it's even better with unsweetened cocoa and semi-sweet chocolate chips!
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Ingredients
2cupsall-purpose flourdivided
1cupgranulated sugar
½cupunsweetened cocoa powder
1teaspooncinnamon
1 ½teaspoonsbaking powder
½teaspoonbaking soda
¼teaspoonKosher salt
4medium ripe bananasmashed
2eggs
½cupunsalted buttermelted
¼cupmilk
1 ½teaspoonspure vanilla extract
1 ¼cupsemi-sweet chocolate chipsdivided
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and prepare a 9 X 5-inch bread pan by greasing it with butter and lightly flouring it.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In a medium bowl, mix together the bananas, eggs, melted butter, vanilla and rmilk.
Add wet ingredients to dry and mix until just incorporated.
Gently fold in 1 cup of the semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Pour into prepared loaf pan and spread to even out.
Scatter the remaining 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips on top of batter.
Bake for 55 - 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Bread is best and easiest to cut when stored in tin foil overnight and eaten the next day.