Triple Chocolate Banana Bread

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Triple Chocolate Banana Bread

Easy, one-bowl Triple Chocolate Banana Bread. Loaded with chocolate chips and topped with a dark chocolate ganache.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 10

Servings

Calories 526kcal

Author Olivia

Ingredients

Chocolate Banana Bread:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder sifted, I use Dutch-processed
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 Tbsp instant espresso powder (optional for flavor)
1 cup overripe bananas mashed (approx. 2 large bananas)
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips optional

Ganache (optional):

5 oz dark chocolate chopped
5 oz heavy whipping cream

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Instructions

Chocolate Banana Bread:

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour a 9" x 5" loaf pan (I use homemade cake release). Line with parchment (optional).
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.**
In a medium bowl, whisk together mashed bananas, oil, sugar, egg, and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients to wet and mix until combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
Bake for 55-65 mins or until a cake tester comes out mostly clean.
Cool in pan on wire rack for 10mins, turn out and cool completely on wire rack.

Ganache:

Finely chop chocolate and place into a bowl. Bring cream just barely to a simmer and pour over chopped chocolate. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand 2 mins. Stir with a spatula until combined and smooth.
Cool completely before drizzling over loaf.***

Notes

*This bread is not super sweet and has a strong chocolate flavor. If you'd like to tone that down and prefer it sweeter, reduce the cocoa powder to 1/4 cup and increase the flour to 1 1/4 cups.

**One-bowl method - Skip this part and just add the dry right into the wet.

***I had leftover ganache stored in the fridge that I zapped in the microwave for 30 seconds.

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