Sweet Sunday – Chocolate Banana Bread

Never have I had a more lazy Sunday than today. Rarely have I had less motivation to do anything than today.Oh, how I love Sundays.

What makes it even better? It’s Sweet Sunday! And as usual, I have a yummy recipe for you. Today, it is also incredibly easy.Basically, this bread or cake (whatever you want to call it) combines all that is good in the world. A sort of healthy dough, filled with ripe tasty bananas and melting chocolate chips…

Are you drooling? Cause I sure am.

How about now? Ready to make this surprisingly light bread? Which by the way does not contain butter but instead it uses sunflower oil. Good stuff.

Right. That’s what I thought. Let’s get to business!

Chocolate Banana Bread

Servings: 8-10
Time: 1, 5 hours
Difficulty: easy
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Yields 1 bread

Ingredients

240 grams (1 cup) ripe bananas (about 2 bananas)
1 tsp baking soda
120 ml (1/2 cup) yogurt
2 eggs
120 ml (1/2 cup) sunflower or vegetable oil
165 grams (3/4 cup) light brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
130 grams (1 cup) all-purpose flour
65 grams (1/2 cup) whole wheat flour
25 grams (1/3 cup) cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
100 grams (3/4 cup) chocolate chips

Used kitchen appliances

1 cake/bread tin
1 mixing bowl
1 bowl
1 large mixing bowl

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F. Grease the tin with oil.
Peel and mash the bananas into a pulp. Combine in the mixing bowl with the baking soda, and yogurt. Gently spoon it together until the mixture becomes foamy due to the soda.
In the bowl, beat the eggs, and proceed to add the oil, sugar, and vanilla extract. Combine.
In the large mixing bowl, sift the two types of flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Pour in the chocolate chips and cover with the flour.
Transfer the egg mixture to the banana mixture and stir until combined.
Then add this to the flour, and mix with a wooden spoon until you get a combined dough.
Pour the dough in the tin. Place in the oven and bake for 50 minutes. Check to see if the bread is done by inserting a toothpick, which should come out clean. If not, leave it in a while longer.
Leave the bread to rest until you take it out of the tin.