Sweet Saturday Recipe: Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

| Jul 11, 2015

The lovely Catherine from Boutique Bake has been sharing their delicious baking recipes with us in her Sweet Saturday series (you can check out more Boutique Bake recipes here).

And today we are going to combine two, no three of our favourite things and rustle up some chocolate chip banana bread.

Where there’s a whisk, there’s a way.

This is a great recipe to use up over-ripe bananas as they work best when making banana bread! They add a lovely sweetness to a cake mix, and mean that you don’t need to use as much sugar. I have added chocolate chips, which taste delicious or you could easily add in some chopped nuts for some crunch!

My recipe below is really easy to put together, but for an even simpler version of banana bread, you can use one of my Boutique Bake Carrot Cake baking mixes. Simply follow the instructions as directed on the pack, but instead of adding two grated carrots, add in two mashed bananas and the remaining ingredients. The result is really lovely banana bread! To find a stockist near you, click here: Boutique Bake Stockists

So let’s get started on this quick and easy chocolate chip banana bread!

Ingredients:

260g plain flour
1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
100g butter
200g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 ripe bananas, mashed
85ml milk
60g chocolate chips

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Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl (using an electric mixer), cream together the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

Peel your bananas, then mash them up nicely using a fork
Add the eggs, mashed bananas, and milk to the butter and sugar mixture and mix well.
Next, fold in the flour mixture, until it is well combined, then fold in the chocolate chips

Grease and line a 2lb/20cm x 12.5cm/8in x 5in loaf tin
Next, pour the cake mixture into the tin, and flatten the top out nicely
Pop in the oven and bake for about 50 minutes, until well risen and golden-brown (or until a skewer inserted comes out clean)

Remove from the oven and cool in the tin for a few minutes, then place onto a wire rack to cool completely before serving.
Enjoy!

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