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Anneke Silva

Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is decadent enough to serve as a tasty dessert addition to lunch or brunch, but also healthy enough that you don’t feel too guilty about having a slice for breakfast on occasion.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 24 muffins
Course: Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 204
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups All purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp Ground nutmeg
  • 1 cup Dark brown sugar
  • 1 cup Chocolate chips
  • 1 cup Avocado oil canola also works
  • 3 Large eggs
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
  • 5 Overripe bananas

Equipment

  • Kitchen Aid Professional mixer (optional)
  • Large Bowl and Whisk (If not using mixer)
  • Loaf Pan (or Muffin Pan if making muffins)

Method
 

  1. Preheat your oven to 325 F.
  2. Pour your oil, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract into the bowl of your stand mixer.
    Prior to mixture of oil, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract in stand mixer.
  3. On low speed, mix until the sugar has absorbed the liquids and has a creamy texture.
    Mixture of oil, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract in stand mixer.
  4. Mash your bananas and add them to the batter.
    Mash your bananas and add them to the batter.
  5. Add your flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg to your liquids.
    Add your flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg to your liquids.
  6. After your dry ingredients are incorporated into your wet, stop and scrape down the bottom and sides of your bowl. This will ensure that you don’t have any blobs of flour or baking powder in your final batter.
    Final batter for healthy chocolate chip banana bread.
  7. Fold in your chocolate chips (bring batter from the bottom to the top). This will incorporate your chocolate chips without breaking them.
    Fold in your chocolate chips (bring batter from the bottom to the top). This will incorporate your chocolate chips without breaking them.
  8. Line your muffin or loaf pan with parchment paper.
    Line your muffin or loaf pan with parchment paper.
  9. Fill your muffin or loaf pan no more than 3/4 (the batter will rise) and put it in your preheated oven on the middle rack.
    Loaf pan and muffin pan filled with chocolate chip banana bread batter.
  10. For muffins, set your timer for 25 minutes. For a loaf, start at 50 minutes.
  11. Makes about 24 large muffins (3 tbsp batter each), or two loaf pans (9.25/5.25/2.75)

Notes

Any nutritional information should be considered an estimate only; please consult a registered dietician, nutritionist, or your physician for specific health-related questions. The recipe card above is created using a recipe card plugin that can auto-convert quantities into metric. These conversions are only populated in the ingredients section of the card and not in any directions that may list quantities.