The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Name: The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 75 min
Total time: 90 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup Unsalted Butter (1/2 cup unsalted butter (113g)); 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil (2 tbsp vegetable oil (25g)); ¾ cup Light Brown Sugar (¾ cup light brown sugar, packed (150g)); 2 pieces Egg (2 large eggs); 1 tsp Vanilla (1 tsp vanilla); 1 tsp Coffee (1 tsp instant coffee + 1 teaspoon hot water); 4 pieces Banana (4 extra ripe bananas, mashed (about 440g)); ½ cup Greek Yogurt (½ cup Greek yogurt (120g)); 1 ¾ cup All-Purpose Flour (1 ¾ cups all purpose flour (227g)); 1 tsp Baking Powder (1 tsp baking powder); ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda (½ tsp baking soda); ½ tsp Table Salt (½ tsp salt); 1 ½ cup Chocolate Chip (1 1/2 cup chocolate chips or chopped chocolate of choice (300g); I recommend semi-sweet or dark)

A rich, moist banana bread using browned butter and Greek yogurt for depth, studded with chocolate chips.

90 minAmerican

Servings4

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Steps

1Pre-heat oven to 340F and line a 8.5 x 4.5 or 9 x 4 loaf pan with parchment paper
2Add the cubed butter to a saucepan. Place on medium low heat, and cook and stir for ~5-8 minutes until the butter has browned. It will melt first, then become bubbly and foamy before you see brown specks on the bottom and smell a lovely caramel-y scent. Be sure not to overcook, as it can burn quickly after browning
3Add the brown butter to a large bowl. Add the oil and brown sugar, and whisk for 1-2 minutes. If the mixture feels too hot, wait 5 minutes before proceeding
4Add the eggs, vanilla, and coffee dissolved in water. Whisk for 1-2 minutes until the mixture becomes smooth and lighter in color
5Add the mashed bananas and greek yogurt, and whisk until combined
6Sift in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Gently whisk until the dry ingredients are combined and no lumps or streaks of flour remain
7Lastly, fold in the chocolate chips. Do not overmix
8Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. It is a generous amount of batter - so if you are worried it will overflow, you can remove ~1/2 cup and bake it separately as a muffin. Optionally, you can sprinkle more chocolate chips on top
9Bake for 65 to 75 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with light crumbs but no wet batter
10Remove from the oven and let the banana bread rest in the loaf until it fully cools down. This can take a while, try not to rush! Once cooled, remove from the pan, serve & enjoy!