Chocolate Banana Bread

banana bread recipe

Chocolate Banana Bread

This cake is chocolatey, bananary and has super squidge. A shot of coffee really makes the chocolate flavour sing (even if you aren’t a coffee drinker it’s worth it).

Ingredients

  • 200g plain flour

  • 30g Fairtrade cocoa powder

  • 100g Fairtrade caster sugar

  • 1 tsp baking powder

  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

  • pinch of sea salt

  • 180g Fairtrade 70% chocolate, roughly chopped

  • 50g chopped pecans or walnuts (if you like)

  • 2 large eggs (at room temp)

  • 3 large Fairtrade bananas or 4 smaller ones, about 450g mashed (plus 1 extra to decorate)

  • 110g unsalted butter, melted and cooled

  • 1 shot of brewed Fairtrade coffee, cooled (or 1tbsp instant coffee dissolved in 2 tbsp water)

  • 1tsp Fairtrade pure vanilla extract

Method

  • Preheat your oven to 180 degrees c fan setting and line a 2lb loaf pan with parchment.

  • In a large bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Stir in the chopped chocolate.

  • In a separate bowl whisk the eggs. Then add the mashed banana, melted butter, coffee and vanilla extract.

  • Gently fold the wet ingredients into dry, mixing just until incorporated. Top with a banana sliced in half lengthways if you like.

  • Bake for 50-60 mins or until the cake has risen slightly.  When inserting a toothpick it should come out with just a few dry crumbs and some melted chocolate. (Another good gauge is how the cake feels when you pierce it: it should be spongy, rather than sticky.)

  • Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 15 mins before cooling on a wire rack. 

If you are looking for more banana bread recipes try this Chocolate, Olive Oil Banana Bread.

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