Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This chocolate chip banana bread is rich and moist and loaded with banana flavor and plenty of chocolate chips. Simply divine.

Banana bread is the best thing ever, and when you’re craving chocolate as well, then chocolate chip banana bread is the way forward.

This recipe is based on our best ever banana bread recipe and it’s the best way to combine a chocolate craving with the most delicious banana bread.

And if you want the most divine smelling house on the block, then baking a loaf of banana bread (or our delicious banana muffins) is the way to get it. Also check out our double chocolate banana bread (ooooh!).

How To Make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Full instructions and measurements can always be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.

• Sift all purpose flour into a mixing bowl and add sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and mix together.
• Mash bananas and melt butter. Add the mashed banana to the melted butter, add eggs and vanilla and mix everything together.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix into a thick batter.
• Add chocolate chips and fold into the batter.

• Transfer the batter to a prepared 9×5 loaf pan (sprayed with non-stick spray and lined with parchment paper on the bottom) and smooth it down. Add more chocolate chips directly to the top.
• Place into the oven and bake for 60 minutes at 350°F. At the 30 minute mark, bring it out and tent it with foil (this prevents it from over-browning) and then put it back in for the final 30 minutes.
• Allow to cool for a few minutes before removing from the loaf pan and transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Ripe Bananas

It’s essential to use ripe bananas for baking banana bread. If your bananas aren’t ripe then they are more starch than sugar and you want them to be the opposite: more sugar than starch! So they should ideally be spotty all over.

However, if you want to make banana bread and all you have is yellow bananas without any spots, then there is a hack to ripen your bananas fast. This is really for when your bananas are yellow though and not green.

Place whole bananas on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 300°F for 15-20 minutes until the bananas are black on the outside. Let them cool a little and then peel and mash.

What Type of Chocolate Chips?

You can really use any type of chocolate chips or you can chop up a chocolate bar for chocolate chunks. Or use a mix of chocolate chips and chunks.

We used dark chocolate chips (semi sweet) for our photos and milk chocolate chips in the video. You’ll notice the banana bread in the video is a much darker color, this is because the milk chocolate chips seemed to melt more and spread through the banana bread creating more of a chocolate color to the whole loaf.

So you can use whatever you have on hand but the results will be slightly different.

Storing and Freezing

Keep your banana bread covered at room temperature for 3-4 days.

It is also freezer friendly if you want to freeze it. Let it cool completely and then wrap it in plastic wrap or foil and place it into a freezer safe bag. Freeze for 2-3 months. Thaw (wrapped or unwrapped) in the fridge or at room temperature.

More Breakfast/Dessert Recipes

1. Blueberry Muffins
2. Chocolate Chip Muffins
3. Crepes Recipe
4. Perfect Homemade Pancakes
5. Granola Bars
6. Apple Muffins