An easy one-bowl chocolate chip banana bread recipe loaded with mashed sweet bananas and chocolate chips!
It's an incredibly moist chocolate chip banana bread recipe and a great way of using up over ripe bananas from your fruit bowl, just like I do in these easy peanut butter and banana muffins!
This is the only chocolate chip banana bread recipe you are ever going to need!
Perfectly moist tender crumb with sweet banana and chocolate morsels dotted through each slice. Yum!
Delicious as an after-school snack, the choc chip banana bread also travels well in lunchboxes and is great for picnics!
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✔️ Why you'll love this recipe!
- Easy chocolate chip banana bread recipe.
- Made in one bowl.
- Perfect for bake sales, lunchboxes, and picnics.
- A great first bake for kids.
- Enjoy with a cup of coffee.
- Freezer-friendly.
🛒 Ingredient notes
- Bananas - 2 large over ripe bananas. They should have brown or black peels.
- Butter - unsalted and softened.
- Sugars - a mixture of white sugar (caster sugar) and light brown sugar gives the best flavour and texture.
- Eggs - 3 large free-range eggs at room temperature.
- Vanilla Extract - use a good quality extract and not essence. Swap with ground cinnamon if you can't get hold of vanilla extract.
- Flour - self-raising flour already has the raising agent (baking powder) added to it. Alternatively use plain flour and add baking powder to a ratio of 1 teaspoon of baking powder to every 100g of plain flour.
- Chocolate Chips - I like to use a combination of milk chocolate chips and white chocolate chips, but you could also use dark chocolate chips.
🔪 How to make chocolate chip banana bread
The recipe card with ingredient quantities and detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of the post
One: Place the butter and sugars in a large mixing bowl and cream together with a wooden spoon until pale and fluffy.
💡Top Tip - use a stand mixer instead of a mixing bowl and wooden spoon if you prefer.
Two: Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract.
Three: Sift in the flour and fold in gently.
Four: Stir through the mashed banana and chocolate chips.
Five: Spoon the banana bread batter into a greased and lined 2lb loaf tin.
Six: Bake in the oven for 1 hour- 1 hour 10 minutes. Test with a skewer - you should have a few small crumbs clinging to the skewer but no raw batter visible. Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes before removing it from the tin and cutting into slices.
💭 Expert tips
- Freeze over ripe bananas in their skins until you are ready to make banana bread. Defrost at room temperature before beginning the recipe.
- Speed up the ripening process by piercing the banana skins with a fork and microwaving for 30 seconds.
- Line your loaf tin with non stick parchment paper to prevent the banana bread from sticking to the sides. Leave a 3cm overhang to make it easy to pull and lift the banana bread out of the pan.
🍴 Serving suggestions
Serve the chocolate chip banana bread as an after-school snack, or pack slices in lunchboxes and picnics.
Banana bread is also a great grab-and-go breakfast option for busy mornings. Or, why not serve it for dessert with a scoop of no-churn honeycomb ice cream and warm creamy custard?
📖 Variations
Classic chocolate chip banana bread variations!
- Add a handful of walnuts or pecan nuts to the banana bread for added crunch.
- Swap the chocolate chips for raisins or dried cranberries.
- Use dark brown sugar for a richer caramel flavour.
- Sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top of the banana bread before baking. Or, why not sprinkle the top with cinnamon sugar?
- Make a double chocolate banana bread and replace 30g of flour with cocoa powder.
- Make banana chocolate chip muffins! Spoon the batter into 12 muffin cases and reduce the cooking time to 25 minutes.
🥡 Storage
Store: Store the chocolate chip banana bread in an airtight container or cake tin for up to 5 days. Stale slices can be toasted for breakfast and spread with Nutella!
Can you freeze banana bread? The banana bread can be frozen for up to 3 months. Wrap the cooled banana bread in cling film (plastic wrap) or foil to prevent freezer burn. You could also freeze individual slices of banana bread. Pop the individually wrapped slices straight from the freezer into lunchboxes first thing in the morning, and they will have thawed by snack time!
❓ Frequently asked questions
Yes! I like to use a combination of white chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips. Dark chocolate chips can also be used, which will be less sweet.
Measure your ingredients using digital kitchen scales to ensure you use the correct proportion of dry ingredients to wet ingredients.
Unless you can see mold on the skins, then no! The blacker the skin the sweeter the flavour!
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Recipe
Easy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 175 g Unsalted Butter softened
- 100 g Caster Sugar
- 75 g Light Brown Sugar
- 3 Large Eggs room temperature
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- 200 g Self Raising Flour
- 2 Black Bananas mashed
- 200 g Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°c (160 fan/ Gas 4) and grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking paper.
- Cream together the butter, caster sugar and light brown sugar in a large mixing bowl.175 g Unsalted Butter, 100 g Caster Sugar, 75 g Light Brown Sugar
- Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract.3 Large Eggs, 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- Sift in the flour and fold in gently.200 g Self Raising Flour
- Stir through the mashed banana and chocolate chips.2 Black Bananas, 200 g Chocolate Chips
- Spoon the banana bread batter into a greased and lined 2lb loaf tin and bake for 1 hour - 1 hour 10 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
Notes
- Freeze over ripe bananas in their skins until you are ready to make banana bread. Defrost at room temperature before beginning the recipe.
- Speed up the ripening process by piercing the banana skins with a fork and microwaving for 30 seconds.
- Line your loaf tin with non stick parchment paper to prevent the banana bread from sticking to the sides. Leave a 3cm overhang to make it easy to pull and lift the banana bread out of the pan.
- Add a handful of walnuts or pecan nuts to the banana bread for added crunch.
- Swap the chocolate chips for raisins or dried cranberries.
- Use dark brown sugar for a richer caramel flavour.
- Sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top of the banana bread before baking. Or, why not sprinkle the top with cinnamon sugar?
- Make a double chocolate banana bread and replace 30g of flour with cocoa powder.
- Make banana chocolate chip muffins! Spoon the batter into 12 muffin cases and reduce the cooking time to 25 minutes.
Shadi Hasanzadenemati
Oh wow, this looks so delicious. My family is going to devour it!
Louise
I adore banana bread, and with chocolate chips in too! Absolutely the best!
Gwynn
Banana bread is a favorite of mine and adding chocolate chips to it made it so much more delicious! Thank you!
Alisa Infanti
This recipe looks delicious. I can't wait to try!
Emily Flint
This banana bread was so good and the parchment paper did the trick! Thanks for all of the great tips.
Toni
My kids couldn't stop eating this bread! Really good!