Cooking Light Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

This chocolate chipbanana bread is full of chocolate chips, flavorful, sweet, and super moist. In other words, it's the best from-scratch banana bread recipe you will ever find! The best thing to go with your morning cup of coffee or tea, made in one bowl.

I like a slice of banana bread to snack on throughout the day, pop into Greyson's school lunch box, eat it with breakfast sometimes, grab a slice for a midnight snack. I mean, who doesn't love banana bread? It's so sweet, easy to make, and just really tasty!

Emphasis on the moist, even though a ton of people hate that word. But how else do you describe something so good? It's so soft and delicious that it just seems wrong to even call it bread.

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And just like my famous pumpkin bread, where my husband's coworkers would snatch up whole loaves for themselves, this banana bread is known to disappear just as quickly!

So don't throw out those super brown bananas, you're about to make the most heavenly banana bread ever, in just one bowl with one spatula/wooden spoon.

Making banana bread is much easier than most people would believe. It's all done in one bowl with really simple ingredients, and the results are perfect loaves every time. Here are some tips on ensuring you make phenomenal banana bread:

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To ensure you have seriously moist banana bread, you need really overripe bananas. The ones that the kids look at and won't eat because they're not super yellow anymore (*cue eye roll*) but you know they're still edible and you don't want to waste them? Use those. They're super sweet and add a ton of moisture to anything you add them to, so they're perfect for banana bread.

Pro tip: if you end up only having 2 bananas to use, replace the missing banana with applesauce! Applesauce will not only give the moisture and sweetness in lieu of the missing banana but can be used in place of some of the butter too if you are low on butter!

For this recipe, all you need is one bowl, a hand mixer or whisk, and a wooden spoon or a spatula. Three tools that everyone has in the kitchen, right? The hand mixer is needed to cream the butter and brown sugar together.

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Creaming the butter and sugar together makes the crumb of the banana bread light and fluffy, so you won't have to worry about it being dense and heavy. The brown sugar also adds a deeper flavor than granulated sugar, since it has molasses in it, makes the bread softer, and it adds more moisture. We want this banana bread deeply moisturized, y'all.

After that, you need a 9x5 loaf pan to bake in. I don't suggest a glass or dark metal pan, because they tend to make the sugars caramelize faster in the oven and that can cause them to burn while the bread bakes. I really like light metal or oven-safe ceramic loaf pans for this reason.

To make the bread: Cream the butter and sugar well, for about three to five minutes, then mash the bananas (you can make them as smooth or as chunky as you like), add those and the egg in, then mix in the dry ingredients well. Simple, right?

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Then the best part: the chocolate chips. I used mini chocolate chips because they disperse so well and you get perfect little bits of chocolate literally all around the banana bread.

I went a little crazy with the chocolate chips in the recipe, there's over an entire cup with a nice handful that goes on top of the batter before baking. If you're not as much of a chocolate lover as I am, you can use maybe ¾ cup of chocolate chips.

Bake for just under an hour, I did 55 minutes. It's hard to do the toothpick/cake tester trick since the chocolate and chunkier bits of banana are ingredients that will stay wet but as long as there is no wet batter and crumbs on your tester, it's ready to pull from the oven.

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Banana bread is a great blank canvas for add-ins. Besides chocolate chips, you can add cocoa powder to make chocolate banana bread.

Got some bananas that just aren't there yet, but you still want that chocolate chip banana bread? Here are a couple of tips on ripening your bananas:

This recipe makes incredibly moist banana bread --between the super sweet bananas, the brown sugar, the chocolate chips-- and we want to keep that goodness all inside.

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After baking the banana bread, let it cool then wrap it well in plastic wrap to keep the moisture in. It gets even better the next day!

Banana bread, using super ripe/overripe bananas, is a really moist baked good. Keeping it out on the counter can cause it to grow mold, so the best way to keep it is wrapped well with plastic wrap or foil and keeping it in the fridge. In fact, it'll get even better each day. Store it in the fridge for up to 5 days.

Banana bread freezes fantastically! Once the banana bread has cooled completely, wrap the loaf in plastic wrap well and in a layer of foil. It keeps in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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Once the banana bread has cooled completely, wrap the loaf in plastic wrap well and in a layer of foil. It keeps in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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Eden Westbrook is the recipe developer, writer, and photographer behind Sweet Tea and Thyme. A classically trained chef, Eden has inspired home cooks into the kitchen with cultural comfort foods, easy family-friendly eats and sweets, and glorious spreads for date night and entertaining since 2015.This is the bestChocolate Chip Banana Bread recipe! This easy spin on classic banana bread comes together easily and is such a popular recipe. It is moist, delicious, and only takes about 10 minutes to prepare.

This Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is one of my most popular recipes. It comes together with a few simple ingredients and is fast to make. It is based on the very best easy banana bread recipe. The addition of the chocolate chips just takes it way over the top.

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I suggest that when you make this recipe you make a double batch. Make one to eat right away and one to freeze for later. You’ll thank me when the first batch is inhaled by your crew right away.

This chocolate chip banana bread was so delicious I went through all your steps and it turned out perfect. My friends all loved it will definitely make again!

This simple and easy Banana Bread is going to be your go to recipe from here on out! With 10 minutes hands on time, simple tips and easy instructions, you will love this recipe.

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This is a brief overview of how easy this recipe is to make. For the full recipe with all of the measurements please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

The reason that most baking recipes call for unsalted butter is because the amount of salt in salted butter can vary a great deal from brand to brand. Using unsalted butter and then adding a specific amount of salt to the recipe, allows bakers to control the amount of salt in the final baked product.

If you are wondering if you can use salted butter in this recipe, the answer is yes. You will just want to eliminate the 1/2 teaspoon salt from the recipe.

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When making this recipe, you will want to use very ripe bananas. That does not mean that the whole skin needs to be brown, but it needs to be decently speckled with brown dots.

Some recipes suggest that you ripen bananas in your oven, but let me explain why I don’t recommend that. The sweetness of a banana changes as it ripens. The more ripe it is, the sweeter it is. Ripening them by popping them in the oven will get you the correct consistency of banana you are looking for, but it won’t get you the sweetness you want.

A better bet is to let those bananas ripen fully. Then peel them and freeze them. When you are ready to make your banana bread, let them fully thaw, and use them (and any liquid that goes with them) in this recipe.

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This bread recipe should be stored in an air tight container in a cool, dry place, for up to one week. I have best results when I don’t store the bread in