Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

sliced bread with melted chocolate chips baked in.

4.94 from 44 votes

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is a delicious breakfast recipe everyone loves! My mom's banana bread recipe is filled with chocolate chips for the breakfast your kids will want to eat.

Prep Time15

Cook Time50

Total Time1 5

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 392kcal

Author: Dorothy Kern

Cost: $8

Ingredients

1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
½ cup (113g) unsalted butter, softened
2 medium overripe bananas
2 large eggs
7 tablespoons sour milk or buttermilk (To make sour milk: add 1 teaspoon vinegar to milk and let sit 5 minutes)
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups (248g) all-purpose flour
2 cups (340g) chocolate chips, divided

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°. Spray a 9x5with nonstick cooking spray. You can use an 8x4-inch loaf pan and make 1-2 muffins alongside.
Cream butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer (and hand mixer is okay too).
Add the bananas, eggs, sour milk, and baking soda to a blender. Mix until liquefied. Alternately, mash the bananas with a fork and then stir the eggs, milk, and baking soda into the bananas.
Pour half of the banana mixture into the butter mixture with 1 cup of flour and mix until just combined. Repeat with the rest of the liquid and flour. Do not overmix!
Stir in 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips.
Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips. Bake approximately 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean (test right next to the crack).
Cool at least 10 minutes in pan.

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Notes

Pan Size: I recommend using a 9x5-inch or 10x6-inch baking pan for this bread. Or, use two 8x4-inch pans or three mini loaf pans.

You can make chocolate chip banana bread muffins using muffin pans.

You can substitute soy or almond milk in this bread, but add 1 teaspoon of vinegar so the baking soda is activated.

It will brown a lot on the outside while it's baking. If it's browning too much, reduce the oven temperature by 25°.

Cooling: Let it cool a bit before slicing or the chocolate chips will create holes in the bread.

I usually mash my bananas with a fork but you can also use a blender for all the wet ingredients.

Did you know you can freeze your overripe bananas? I always tend to over buy bananas and they go brown before I eat them. I always freeze them so I can make banana bread whenever I want.

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