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Chocolate banana bread

Very moist, fluffy, soft – simply delicious tastes the chocolate banana bread in a loaf pan. With this recipe, you can quickly make it yourself from a few common ingredients that you may already have at home. Whether it's for afternoon coffee at the weekend, to take with you on the go, or even for a special occasion, no one is guaranteed to be able to resist this delicious banana cake with chocolate.
Course Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Servings 10

Equipment

  • 25 cm x 10 cm loaf pan

Ingredients

  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 100 g butter (melted and cooled)
  • 2 eggs
  • 140 g sugar
  • approx. 200 g flour
  • 40 g cocoa powder
  • 8 g baking powder
  • vanilla
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • butter or margarine to grease the loaf pan

for sprinkling

  • 50 g dark chocolate (coarsely chopped)

Instructions

  • Thoroughly grease the loaf pan with butter or margarine.
  • Mash bananas with a fork in a mixing bowl.
  • Add sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt and melted and cooled butter and mix until homogeneous.
  • Mix flour, cocoa powder and baking powder.
  • Add the dry flour mixture in batches to the liquid banana mixture and mix it briefly and briskly to form a viscous dough.
  • Pour the batter into the greased loaf pan, sprinkle the top with coarsely chopped dark chocolate and bake the cake in a preheated oven at 170 °C top and bottom heat for about 50 minutes.

Notes

  • Only use very ripe or overripe bananas that have brown spots or are completely brown for the recipe.
  • The amount of sugar for the sponge can be adjusted to taste.
  • Under no circumstances use hot melted butter for the sponge, let it cool first.
  • The amount of flour given in the recipe may differ. Therefore, add the dry mixture of flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in portions to the liquid banana mixture until a viscous sponge is formed.
  • Do not mix the dough for too long, but only briefly and briskly.
  • Be sure to grease the loaf pan thoroughly so that the chocolate banana bread can be easily removed from the pan after baking.
  • Use a toothpick to check if the chocolate banana bread is done baking.
  • Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the chocolate banana bread at the top of the post.