Dry Ingredients:
- AP flour (All-purpose) – 1 cup
- Cocoa Powder – ½ cup
- Brown sugar – ¼ cup
- Aluminum free Baking powder – 2 tsp
- Salt – ¼ tsp
- Chopped Mixed nuts (walnuts/ almonds/pecans) – ½ cup
Wet Ingredients:
- Mashed banana – 1 ½ – 2 cups (from 3 ripped bananas)
- Melted butter – ¼ cup
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Egg – 1
- Canola oil/ coconut oil – ¼ cup
- Melted chocolate – ½ cup
- Dark chocolate – ¾ cup
- Whole milk/ heavy cream – ¼ cup
Greasing:
- Room temperature butter – 1 tsp
- Cocoa powder – 1 tsp
Procedure:
- Pre heat the oven to 350Degree F
- Grease the pan with butter and dust it with some cocoa powder(9*5 inch loaf pan) and keep aside
- Melting chocolate :
- In a microwave safe bowl add the chopped dark chocolate and heavy cream and microwave it for about 90 seconds and leave it for 2-3 mins and mix completely and keep aside.
- In a wide mixing bowl, sieve all the dry ingredients finely except the mixed nuts
- In a separate bowl add the wet ingredients, now slowly add the sieved dry ingredients into the wet and mix completely without any lumps.
- Now add the chopped mixed nuts into the batter and mix gently.
- Pour the batter into the greased pan and tap it for about 2-3 times, to remove the air bubbles.
- Bake it for about 50-60 mins or until, insert a toothpick in the center of the bread and it comes out clean.
- Enojy the Hot-fresh-Homemade- Guilty Pleasure “Chocolate Banana Bread” with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
NOTE/TIP:
- Always use the ripe bananas for best flavor.
- Adding the melting chocolate will really intensify the chocolate flavor.
