Why This Is The Best Banana Bread

Mireille · 10/08/2018 at 8:26 pm

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Make it and you will see it is moist, tender, and delicious with the best chocolate around. Want to learn how you can make the best chocolate banana bread? Let’s get started!

What You Need For This Recipe

If you want to make this moist banana bread recipe you need quite several ingredients. Fortunately, we have summed them up for you in the list below:

Flour – you can use all-purpose flour, wheat flour, or Spelt flour
Dutch cocoa
Baking soda
Baking powder
Stevia – to sweeten the banana bread
Sea salt
Bananas – use ripe bananas the riper the sweeter the banana
Apple sauce
Coconut oil
Egg – if you are a non-vegan use a large egg
Aquafaba – if you are vegan take aquafaba from a can of chickpea
Vanilla extract
Chocolate – use your favorite chocolate. I used Hands Off My Chocolate Hazelnut Sea Salt & cacao Nibs bar

Optional:

Hazelnut
Cacao nibs

Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.

How To Make Chocolate Banana Bread

Start with two bowls as you need to mix wet and dry ingredients separately. First, combine the dry ingredients.
Add the Spelt flour, cacao powder, baking powder, baking soda, stevia, chocolate nibs, and sea salt to the bowl and stir it through until all is evenly combined.
Cut half of the hands-off my chocolate hazelnut sea salt bar into small pieces. Stir the chopped chocolate through the dry ingredients. Set aside.
For the wet ingredients mash the banana until a banana sauce with a fork. Warm the coconut oil until liquid and let it cool until lukewarm.
Then add the apple sauce to the mashed banana, the vanilla extract, and the egg or aquafaba and stir thoroughly.
Then stir the coconut oil through the wet ingredients.
Preheat the oven to 350°F/175℃. Spray cooking spray in an 8-inch round baking pan or a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan and set aside.
Stir the wet ingredients through the dry ingredients. Be careful to not overmix. Pour the batter into a baking pan.
Cut two more pieces of chocolate into small pieces and sprinkle them on top of the batter.
Bake for 50 minutes or until a bamboo skewer comes out mostly clean. Check multiple times to make sure the bread is dry.
If too wet extend the cooking time for another 5 minutes and check again.
Remove the baking pan from the oven and let it cool for 10 to 15 minutes on a wire cooling rack. Carefully remove the bread from the pan.
Let the bread cool until lukewarm before you cut the bread into wedges or slices and serve.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Banana Bread Options

If you are gluten intolerant no need to worry this recipe can be adjusted to accommodate gluten-free banana bread.

You need to choose flour that can be eaten when gluten intolerant. E.g. you can use the following flours:

Oats flour – This can easily be made by yourself. Buy some whole oats and put them in a kitchen machine. Run until you have oats flour. If you want you can sieve the flour but I use it straight from the kitchen machine.
Rice flour – A great substitute for regular or Spelt flour is (brown) rice flour. This is a very fine flour that works great in bread and cake as you can see in this carrot cake recipe.

Banana Bread Options

This banana bread can be customized with many ingredients. Give these a try:

Pecan nuts – instead of hazelnuts use pecan nuts. Chop them fine and mix in the batter
Walnuts – you can also use walnuts in this banana bread. Chop them fine and mix in the batter
Chocolate chip – instead of chocolate nibs you can use your favorite chocolate chip
Raisins – instead of nuts you can add raisins to your banana bread to give it a sweeter taste
No chocolate – Take the chocolate powder out of this recipe and get regular banana bread
Cinnamon – is a great spice to add to this bread
Pumpkin pie spice – make this bread in the fall and add some pumpkin pie spice to give your bread a warm flavor

How To Store Chocolate Banana Bread

As there are no additives in this recipe do not keep this bread outside of the fridge. There are several ways to store this chocolate banana bread:

Room temperature – if you want to keep this bread out of the fridge or freezer you can keep it for a day or 2. Store it in a bread box or a plastic bag
Refrigerator – You can store this in the fridge for 2 to 3 days. Make sure you cover the bread in a plastic container, resealable bag, or wrapped in aluminum foil
Freezer – Store it in the freeze and thaw when you want to eat it

Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe

The chocolate and this recipe are a real treat, a treat just for you. We do not treat always ourselves the best as we do not put ourselves first very often.

There are a million national days like National Taco Day, enchilada day, Tequila Day, or even take your dog to the workday. But there is no National You Day.

Well in the Netherlands the National You Day had its first edition on the 1st of October this year made possible by Hands Off My Chocolate.

Because they think everyone needs a day that is all about putting you first and treating yourself right. I agree we need at least one day when we put ourselves first.

Well, this recipe is all about you and a treat for you.

Great Chocolate

Hands Off My Chocolate is a great name for great chocolate. If you can get your hands on a bar do not hesitate to get it and do not share. It is just too good to be shared.

The gimmick of the chocolate brand is all about how good this chocolate is and I have to agree. Even if you want to share it you just can’t.

You want to eat it all yourself. They have some amazing flavors like:

Red velvet white chocolate
Crispy cookie caramel sea salt
Seriously dark
Milk meets dark
Yummy vanilla cookie dough
Caramel Machiatto
Milk meets white
Hazelnut sea salt & cacao nibs

Some pretty fancy flavors for these chocolate bars. Well, the slogan also applies to this banana bread. Make it, eat it, and do not share it.

Not under any circumstance because it is moist and tender and a little sticky and so delicious. If you tried this recipe once you will want to eat it every day.

You can add some additional ingredients to keep it new every time but I am confident you will love this bread every time. If you can’t find the Hands off my chocolate bars use a good-quality chocolate bar because you can taste the difference.

I used a round baking form but you can use a regular bread pan for this. In a round pan, it almost looks like a cake. This easy banana bread recipe requires you to mix dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately before combining them into bread.

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Chocolate Banana Bread

Mireille

Serves: 8-10 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Chocolate banana bread recipe with great chocolate, hazelnut chocolate, hazelnuts, and chocolate nibs. Legendary chocolate banana bread.

Ingredients

1 cup spelt flour
½ cup Dutch cocoa
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoon stevia
¼ teaspoon sea salt
3 bananas
¼ cup apple sauce
¼ cup melted coconut oil
1 large egg (if not vegan)
3 tablespoons aqua faba (when vegan)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup Hands Off My Chocolate Hazelnut sea salt & cacao Nibs chocolate
¼ cup finely chopped hazelnuts (optional)
¼ cup cacao nibs (optional)

Instructions

Combine the dry ingredients the spelt flour, cacao powder, baking powder, baking soda, stevia, chocolate nibs and sea salt in the bowl and stir it through until all is evenly combined
Cut half of the chocolate bar into small pieces. Stir the chopped chocolate through the dry ingredients
Warm the coconut oil until liquid
Mash the banana with a fork. Add the apple sauce to the mashed banana, the vanilla extract and the egg or aqua faba and stir through thoroughly. Then stir the coconut oil through the wet ingredients
Pre heat the oven to 350°F/175℃. Spray cooking spray in a round 8 inch baking pan or a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan
Stir the wet ingredients through the wet ingredients. Do not overmix. Pour the batter into baking pan
Sprinkle more chopped chocolate bar on top of the batter
Bake for 50 minutes or until a bamboo skewer comes out mostly clean
Remove the baking pan from the oven and let it cool for 10 to 15 minutes on a wire cooling rack
Cut the bread in wedge or slices and serve

Notes

Check multiple times to make sure the bread is dry when cooking time is done. If to wet extend the cooking time for another 5 minutes and check again