Best Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe

Name: Chocolate Banana Bread
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: Bananas 280g (Ripe bananas pls!); Butter 72g; Grapeseed Oil 16g; Light Brown Sugar 130g (can use white sugar but light brown sugar is recommended); Whole Egg 90g; Vanilla Extract a few drops; All-purpose flour 155g; Cocoa Powder 16g; Baking soda 3g; Salt a pinch; Dark Couverture Chocolate 120g (80g melted, 40g unmelted)

Simply delicious!

by Hanbit Cho May 7, 2022

written by Hanbit Cho May 7, 2022

Chocolate Banana Bread is on the menu in Book recipe, and we are going to teach you how to make this delicious recipe from scratch!

I briefly mention the word “baking powder” in the video but you can ignore that. Only baking soda is used in this recipe.

Hope you’ve watched my previous upload on the Banana Bread – that recipe was Banana Bread with spices and nuts. This time around it’s the chocolate version!

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Chocolate Banana Bread

Rating: 5.0/5
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Serves: 4 Prep Time: 40 Minutes Cooking Time: 50 Minutes 50 Minutes Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

Bananas 280g (Ripe bananas pls!)
Butter 72g
Grapeseed Oil 16g
Light Brown Sugar 130g (can use white sugar but light brown sugar is recommended)
Whole Egg 90g
Vanilla Extract a few drops
All-purpose flour 155g
Cocoa Powder 16g
Baking soda 3g
Salt a pinch
Dark Couverture Chocolate 120g (80g melted, 40g unmelted)

Instructions

Mash the bananas.
In a bowl add the banana, melted butter, oil, sugar, egg, vanilla extract, and whisk.
Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add in the melted couverture chocolate followed by unmelted couverture chocolate.
(pre-heat 160℃) 160℃ for 40~50mins. You MUST adjust baking temp/time due to the difference in the pan size.
Personally, I prefer wrapping the banana bread in cling film and storing it at room temp to serve the next day for optimal tenderness.

Quickly ripening bananas:

Put a banana into a paper bag with an apple inside. Check back after half a day and leave it longer if not ripe enough.
Another super quick way would be to bake unpeeled bananas at 150℃ (pre-heat 150℃) for 15~30mins. The banana will turn black but that’s ok.

Notes

Baking time/temp:

Everyone uses different-sized pans – so adjust baking time & temperature. I’ve explained in the video “how to check” if your banana bread is baked well. My advice is to stick to 160℃ and adjust the time first - if it takes too long to bake even after extending the time then raise the temp by 10~15℃. (I know my suggested baking temperature is lower compared to a lot of those recipes out there – I prefer baking at a lower temp for longer)

Yield:

2 x mid-sized pound cake pans (15cm x 7cm x 6cm, somewhere around 700ml in volume)

How to store / Shelf life:

Air-tight container for 3 days at room temp. It’s possible to store it in the freezer for up to 2wks.

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Hanbit Cho

Hi! I’m Hanbit, professional pastry chef and CEO of Sugar Lane Baking Academy based in Seoul, Korea. Funny enough, my background had nothing to do with baking - far from it. I studied mathematics at university and then worked in finance, strategy consulting and IT. Then one day in 2018, I quit my job and enrolled at a pastry school. I have loved it ever since!As my story suggests, I really enjoy being a pastry chef and I am keen to share the joy of baking with as many people as possible. Baking can seem daunting at first but as long as you take it step-by-step anyone can do it - even someone with no baking background like myself managed to become a professional pastry chef!I'll try my best to include detailed explanations and tips in my recipes so that you will be able to bake amazing desserts. I aim to create videos that can be enjoyed by people at all levels - those who bake for fun as well as those who want to get more serious.

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