Recipe: Yummy Homemade Chocolate Banana Cake-Bread

Homemade Chocolate Banana Cake-Bread. Check Our Step-By-Step Guide To Bake Up A Sweet Treat For Your Loved Ones. This recipe makes about five mini loaves or two large loaves. A printable recipe card can be found at the bottom of this post.

When cool, frost generously with chocolate butter frosting. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to the banana mixture and mix just until combined. This chocolate banana bread recipe is a delicious dessert but you can also grab a slice for a quick breakfast when you're running out the door to work. You can cook Homemade Chocolate Banana Cake-Bread using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Homemade Chocolate Banana Cake-Bread

1. You need 1 1/2 cups of flour.
2. It's 1/4 cup of cocoa powder.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
4. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. It's 1 of large egg.
6. It's 6 tbsps of vegetable oil.
7. Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
9. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
10. Prepare 4-5 of medium-sized bananas.
11. You need of Chocolate chips (optional).

The chocolate chips add a great texture to the cake mix banana bread and can be easily customized to taste. Sometimes I even like to add banana chips to the top of the batter just for a crunch. Variations of chocolate chip banana bread recipe. For a classic banana bread, use yellow cake mix instead of chocolate cake mix to make and also.

Homemade Chocolate Banana Cake-Bread step by step

1. Grease your pan with oil and line with parchment paper.
2. Heat up your oven to 350 °F.
3. Mash up your bananas till they become runny. This takes about 5 minutes. The more ripe they are, the easier they are to mash up.
4. Add in the egg, vanilla and oil, and stir.
5. Add sugar and stir to combine.
6. Sift in the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Use a spatula to combine gently.
7. Add the milk and combine. Your batter will be lumpy from the banana bits and cocoa powder.
8. Add the chocolate chips (if you have) and mix into the batter.
9. Transfer to your lined pan and sprinkle some more chocolate chips on the top.
10. Bake for 45 minutes in the centre of the oven or till a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
11. Peep that baby rise at 15 minutes 😉.
12. Let it sit in the pan for 15 minutes. The final stage of cooking occurs now, with the heat from the pan.
13. Place on a wire rack to cool further to room temperature before serving, icing or storing in the fridge.
14. Enjoy 🥰.
15. Note: You can also bake this plain i.e. without the chocolate. Simply take out the cocoa powder and chocolate chips and maintain the other ingredients with their measurements.

You can also omit chocolate chips altogether. This peanut butter chocolate chip bread is a favorite of my kids, either for a special breakfast on Easter morning or a side dish brought to a fancy brunch. It is a very flexible recipe. You can use it for a plain banana bread, a peanut butter banana bread, or a chocolate chip banana bread. Frost this delicious chocolate banana cake with chocolate frosting or a cream cheese frosting.