This Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is a sweet combination of chocolate and bananas. It is moist, flavorful, and loaded with chocolate. What’s not to love?

So let’s turn back to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day of this year. My parents were visiting and I really already planned my menu, but was still a bit on the fence about dessert. I knew I wanted dessert to be more of a finger food or something dip-able to go along with the rest of our New Year’s Eve fare, which consisted of appetizers and more appetizers.

For some reason, starting the day before New Year’s Eve, I got this serious and strong craving for banana bread. Now, I have always thought banana bread was a delectable little treat, but I have to tell you, it is not something I generally crave. In all honestly, I am pretty sure up until that day, I had never actually made it myself (gasp).

Sure I’ve had it when other people had made it and thoroughly enjoyed it, but like I said, it is not a dessert I normally crave. So back to the day before New Year’s Eve when I was wildly and madly craving banana bread. I decided I just had to make some. Unfortunately, banana bread just always tastes better the next day. Honestly, I really prefer it about three days after it’s been made. As strong as my craving for Chocolate Chip Banana Bread was, I knew in order to enjoy it to it’s full potential, I needed to wait to serve it until the next day. 

I decided Chocolate Chip Banana Bread would grace our New Year’s Eve festivities. I felt like it would fit in with the other food, because it’s basically finger food. At least I’ve never seen anybody eat banana bread with a fork, have you?

Back to this mad and wild craving I was having. I don’t know why it came on so strong, but it hasn’t left since. In fact, I made Chocolate Chip Banana Bread again this past weekend. The only things I generally crave as strongly as I was craving banana bread are pizza, a cheeseburger, and tikka masala with naan bread. Oh and Cafe Rio! Those are pretty much my most favorite-est foods of all time.

Let’s also talk chocolate chips. I am a firm believer that nuts don’t belong in my banana bread, or my cookies, or my brownies, or my cake, but I love them plain or dipped in chocolate! I also don’t really believe in banana bread without chocolate chips. They just go together so good I can’t imagine them separating.

 

Much love and butter,

-Hannah

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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is a sweet combination of chocolate and bananas. It is moist, flavorful, and loaded with chocolate.

 

Ingredients:

4 bananas, mashed

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

2 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips, divided

 

Directions:

Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Combine the bananas, oil, and sugars. Add the buttermilk and eggs and mix. Add the vanilla and mix. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add to wet ingredients. Do not over-mix. Add one cup of the chocolate chips to the batter. Pour into a greased standard 9×5 loaf pan. Top with the remaining 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. Bake 50-60 minutes. Do not let the edges turn too brown or it won’t be as moist!

 

Adapted from Frog Prince Paperie