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Healthy chocolate banana bread

Ready for your sweet, healthy chocolate banana bread? Don't throw away your brown bananas.

This healthy chocolate banana bread is not only incredibly tasty and moist, but thanks to wholemeal flour, ripe bananas and a hint of maple syrup, it is also a more conscious choice for anyone who wants to combine indulgence with well-being.

Healthy chocolate banana bread

Stefie

Servings

6-8

Prep Time

15-20 minutes

Cook Time

45-60 minutes

Cuisine

Worldwide

Category

Bread

Healthy chocolate banana bread

Ingredients

  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 200g wholemeal flour
  • 50g unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 75ml vegetable oil (e.g. coconut oil)
  • 2 eggs
  • 100ml maple syrup or honey
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 70g dark chocolate 

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, grease the loaf tin

  2. Wet ingredients: Mash the bananas in a bowl with a fork.

  3. Add the oil, eggs, maple syrup and vanilla extract to the bananas and mix well.

  4. dry ingredients: In another bowl, mix wholemeal flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt.

  5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir briefly until everything is combined.

  6. Fold in the chocolate chips

  7. Pour the batter into the tin, smooth out and bake at 180°C for approx. 50-60 minutes until the batter is cooked through (test with a skewer).

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