Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts
Got overripe bananas? Mash them and bake them into this banana bread (it’s really a cake) that’s ultra moist and chock-full of chocolate chips and nuts.
Servings 3 small cakes
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups mashed overripe bananas
- 6 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
- ½ cup dark brown sugar loosely packed
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup chocolate chips dark is best; milk chocolate is okay too
- ½ cup roughly chopped roasted unsalted cashew nuts or you preferred nuts
- halved roasted unsalted cashew nuts for the topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Grease (and, optionally, line) three 8" x 4" loaf pans.
- In a bowl, add the baking powder and salt to the sifted flour, and whisk to combine.
- Pour the melted butter over the mashed bananas and stir to incorporate.
- Stir in the brown and white sugars.
- Whisk in the egg.
- Add the flour mixture and stir until blended.
- Fold in the chopped nuts and three-quarters cup of chocolate chips.
- Pour the batter evenly among the three loaf pans.
- Sprinkle the cashew halves and remaining chocolate chips on top.
- Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Cool in the pan for ten to fifteen minutes then take out of the pans and transfer to a rack to cool.
- Slice and serve. Or wrap individually in cling film, chill until firm, slice and reheat the individual slices in the microwave for 10 to 15 seconds.
