Chocolate Banana Loaf Recipes

CHOCOLATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together margarine, sugar and eggs. Stir in bananas and vanilla. Sift in flour, baking soda and cocoa; mix well. Blend in sour cream and chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a loaf comes out clean.

CHOCOLATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Prepare the pan and preheat oven: Butter or spray with cooking spray the inside of a 5 x 9-inch loaf pan. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C) with a rack in the middle.
• Puree the bananas: Using a blender, food processor, or a fork, puree the peeled ripe bananas until smooth. You should have 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups of banana puree.

CHOCOLATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, bananas, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to the banana mixture and mix just until combined. Fold in nuts if desired. Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan., Bake for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

CHOCOLATE BANANA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Stir in walnuts; set aside.
• Using medium speed of an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in bananas until blended. Add butter mixture to flour mixture and stir just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Spoon batter into a greased 8 1/2x4 1/2 inch loaf pan.
• Bake until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• Cool in pan on a rack for 10 minutes. Invert loaf onto rack and cool completely. May be frozen for up to 1 month.

CHOCOLATE & BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment (allow it to come 2cm above top of tin). Mix the sugar, flour, bicarb, cocoa and chocolate in a large bowl.
• Mash the bananas in a bowl and stir in the whole egg plus 2 yolks, followed by the oil and milk. Beat the egg whites until stiff. Quickly stir the wet banana mixture into the dry ingredients, stir in a quarter of the egg whites to loosen the mixture, then gently fold in the rest. Gently scrape into the tin and bake for 1 hr 10-15 mins, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Cool in the tin on a wire rack. To make the icing, melt the chocolate and soured cream together in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Chill in the fridge until spreadable. Remove cake from tin, roughly swirl icing over and scatter with the banana chips.

EGG-FREE CHOCOLATE BANANA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Coat 9x5 inch loaf pan (or 12-cup muffin tin) with cooking spray.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together buttermilk, mashed banana, oil and vanilla.
• Fold buttermilk mixture into flour mixture.
• Scoop batter into prepared pan(s). Bake loaf 50-60 minutes (or muffins 18-22 mins).
• Cool 5 minutes in pan, before serving.

BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan, preferably glass.
• Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Stir bananas, milk, and cinnamon in another bowl. Beat butter and sugar in a third bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs to butter mixture, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir banana mixture into butter mixture. Stir in dry mixture until blended. Fold in chocolate chips until just combined. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.