Beautifully moist and made even more delicious with the addition of chocolate chunks, this loaf is a great way to use up over-ripe bananas.
Ingredients
For the chocolate chunk banana bread
- 1⅓ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 110g butter – softened
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 3–4 ripe bananas – mashed (about 1½ cups)
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup greek yoghurt or sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200g chocolate – chopped into small chunks
Method
For the chocolate chunk banana bread
- Preheat the oven to 165°C (150°C fan bake). Line a 22 x 12cm loaf tin with baking paper.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
- Cream the butter and sugars in an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the mashed bananas, followed by the eggs, yoghurt or sour cream and vanilla.
- Gently beat in the dry ingredients, followed by three quarters of the chocolate.
- Transfer to the prepared tin and sprinkle with the remaining chocolate chunks.
- Bake for 1–1¼ hours or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave to cool completely before removing from the tin.