For a work meeting yesterday, my roommate decided to bring a banana bread recipe she’d seen on my blog.
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I told her we should definitely make two, because banana bread makes the house smell so delicious…
And if the house is going to start smelling so delicious it has me thinking about running to the oven and sticking my head inside, there is NO WAY I’m giving up that bread when it comes out.
You’d have to pry it from my (tightly-shut) teeth.
So we made two loaves.
It was so good, we should’ve made three.
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With Chocolate polka dots.
Lots and lots of chocolate polka dots.
The best kind of polka dots.
Chocolate Chips: best things ever invented? Do you ever eat them plain, straight out of the bag?
I like to do that with Ghirardelli 100% baking discs. Or Whole Foods dark chocolate mini chunks. Or… basically I’ve never met a vegan chocolate chip I didn’t like.
This gooey and delicious recipe is very similar to my other banana bread recipe… but better, because it has chocolate chips!
I know a lot of you find it easier if I don’t make you click links, so here’s the recipe for the chocolate version:
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
(Polka Dot Banana Bread)
- 2 c spelt flour (or white flour or Arrowhead Mills gf)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/3 c oil ORÂ milk of choice
- 1 and 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 c agave or pure maple syrup or honey
- 1 and 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 tbsp more agave or sweetener of choice
- 2 c tightly-packed, mashed banana, measured after mashing
- 1/3 to 2/3 c chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine dry ingredients, and mix well. In a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients and mix into dry. (Mix by hand, and don’t overmix.) Pour into a greased loaf pan and cook 35-50 minutes, depending on how gooey you want it. (Tip: If the top is cooked but the inside is still gooey, put tin foil over the top and continue to cook.) After removing from the oven, let cool for ten minutes before slicing. After the first day, this bread is best stored in the fridge. Or cut it into slices and freeze for later.
See original recipe for Banana Bread Calories &Â Nutrition Facts.
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Link Of The Day:
The Ultimate Chocolate Fudge Pie
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I know what to do with the bananas on my counter now. I seriously had no idea (just eating them did not cross my mind). So good.
Oh.
Oh. My.
Oh. My. GOODNESS!!!!!!!
That is all.
Oh wow does that look yummy. I’m curious though, with all that sugar and chocolate chips, isn’t that too sweet for your liking? I’d like to be able to cut back on my sugars like you do, but sometimes it is so hard. I don’t know how you can love all that chocolate but not have it taste too sweet. Maybe I can learn to cut back gradually.
Yeah, I actually put less than 1/2 the amount of agave in the one loaf (and used the 100% ghirardelli discs for mine) and it was sweet enough for me. I think the bananas give it a good sweetness if they’re ripe enough.
Does ghirardelli still make those 100% discs? I’ve never seen them before but they sound like something I would like 🙂
Dark chocolate chunks straight out of the bag! Oh yeah baby! Thanks for putting the recipe right there and not making us click links . . . it’s the simple things, isn’t it?!?
Chocolate chips: Best thing ever invented. I’ve baked your healthy chocolate chip cookies three times in the past two days (and doubled the batch each time so really that’s like SIX times) and that’s left me hanging out with a lot of open bags of chocolate chips. A large portion of my lunch yesterday definitely featured chips, straight from the bag. Makes me happy 🙂
Btw, shared your cookies with my leadership+service training group and they were OBSESSED. You know it’s good when 12 women who do yoga and are highly conscious of what they eat are giggling and diving facefirst into a container of cookies. Love it 🙂
Aww Ilana, you are the awesomest friend ever. I curse your refrigerator for standing in the way of us meeting up. 😉
An excuse to get my butt back to NYC soon!!
This looks amazing!! I’m usually take it or leave it on banana breads but if there are chocolate chips involved, they always tip the scale! My Grandma used to make me banana or zucchini bread and load it with chocolate chips… yum! I like to eat them straight out of the bag, especially if they are a little frozen!
Dark Chocolate Chips: The best thing ever invented.
Don’t hate me… But I’d prefer carob (or vanilla) over chocolate any day
Also never met a vegan choco chip I didn’t like! I made banana muffins yesterday and my roommate drooled when she came home to the smell. Sounds yummy!
Looks absolutely wicked (but not really as it is so healthy, i like, i like!) I think I am going to make this one today… off to get some bananas (my son LOVES bananas and gobbles up every trace of them when they are in the house!)