Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is wonderfully moist and loaded with ripe bananas and melty morsels of chocolate chips. This banana chocolate chip bread is a real treat.
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe
Classic Banana Bread is on the regular rotation at our house but when we’re craving chocolate, we make this Chocolate Banana Bread. It is the favorite of the children and we are quite smitten as well. Did I mention it’s EASY?
It’s hard to wait for this to cool so I wait until it’s just no longer hot! The aroma that lingers in your kitchen is incredible and your home will smell like Christmas morning. Pair a warm slice with a mug of coffee and your morning is made. This is an excellent breakfast bread but it also works as a dessert bread (because – the chocolate!).
Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe
Be sure eggs, butter and bananas are at room temperature. If using frozen ripe bananas (we often freeze our overripe bananas for later use), thaw bananas overnight then let them come to room temperature.
Keep Those Old Bananas!
Use very ripe bananas, i.e. mushy bananas. You can tell a mushy banana by the color of the peel – it should be browned or browning significantly and should feel soft when squeezed between your fingertips and will be very easy to mash with a fork. Mash bananas until they are a chunky applesauce consistency. Some texture is good in banana bread!
The Best Chocolate Chips for Baking?
We used semi-sweet chocolate chips since the bread was already plenty sweet with the overripe bananas and bit of sugar, but it really is based on preference. You can use milk chocolate for a sweeter bite or even bittersweet chocolate chips to cut down on the sweetness.
We used standard-sized baking chips but mini chocolate chips would also work. Use between 2/3 to 3/4 cup of mini chocolate chips based on how sweet your like your bread.
How to Make the Best Chocolate Chip Banana Bread:
You can use either a stand mixer, an electric hand mixer or even whisk this together by hand with a little extra effort.
- Cream together softened butter and sugar in mixing bowl
- Add 2 lightly beaten eggs
- Mash bananas with a fork and add them to the bowl
- Whisk together dry ingredients and add to batter
- Fold in 3/4 of chocolate chips and transfer to the prepared bread pan
- Sprinkle top with remaining 1/4 chocolate chips and bake
The chocolate banana bread batter should be thick and have small lumps of banana.
It’s marvelous how the chocolate chips stay gooey and moist long after the bread comes out of the oven.
More Banana Recipes to Explore:
- Classic Banana Bread – loaded with nuts and raisins
- Banana Muffins – the muffin version of this recipe
- Banoffee Pie – layers of cream, bananas and caramel
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, (8 Tbsp), softened
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 3 bananas, (very ripe)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, divided
Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 350˚F. Butter and flour a bread loaf pan (9.25"L x 5.25"W x 2.75"D)
- In a mixing bowl using paddle attachment, cream together 1/2 cup softened butter and 2/3 cup sugar. Add 2 lightly beaten eggs.
- Mash bananas with a fork until consistency of chunky applesauce and add them to the mixing bowl along with 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. Mix until blended.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp salt. Add to mixing bowl and mix until incorporated.
- Fold in 3/4 cup chocolate chips then transfer to prepared bread pan. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup chocolate over the top and bake at 350˚F for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let banana bread rest 10 min before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
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Natasha Kravchuk
Hi! I'm Natasha Kravchuk. Here you'll find delicious, trusted recipes with easy step-by-step photos and videos. 
So delicious! Was a hit with my family and so easy to make. I’ve followed your cooking site for a long time now, and keep coming back! Thank you!
I’m so happy to hear that. Thank you for the feedback.
I’ve literally just made this recipe today and it’s the best recipe I’ve found so far! So much flavour and not sickly sweet like some recipes I’ve tried. Only one I’ll be using from now🤩
That’s so great to hear, Charlotte! Thanks for sharing.
Love this recipe! it’s on repeat at our house any time our bananas start looking a little too ripe!
I make this at least a couple times a month my whole family loves it!
I’m so happy you have a family favorite from my blog, Adrian! Thank you so much for sharing that with me.
Been following you since the start. Just learned you put a book out, super exciting to watch you grow as a chef best of luck in the future!
Thank you so much for the years of support.
The best chocolate chip banana bread recipe ever! Moist and scrumptious!
It only took 49 minutes in the oven.
Thanks Natasha. I love your recipes
I’m so happy you enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing that with us!
Love this recipe! It’s my go-to for banana bread! The chocolate chips just make it so much better! 🥰🥰
That’s just awesome! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review!
Excellent recipe PERFECT every time,and seriously easy,thanks Natasha your recipes are fabulous x
Natasha, I made this delicious chocolate chip banana bread yesterday in the loaf pan you recommended and everyone love it, however, the sides came out nicely browned and done but the top of the loaf, in the very center was still a little gooey.
Do you have any recommendations for getting even cooking.
Happy Holidays! Jan
Hi Janice! It could be the type of material that the pan is made of and how it distributes heat. Did you use a conventional oven? If you’re using a convection/fan oven, you would need to adjust the baking time and temperature. I would also use an internal oven thermometer (Amazon affiliate link) to ensure that your oven is not over heating. You may try lowering the temperature and extending the baking time to see if that helps.
do you have a recipe for arugula ??? rolled up pastry with sweets and nuts inside
Hello! I don’t have a recipe for that yet but feel free to go to my website and use the search bar to check for other pastry recipes if you can find something similar to what you need.
I use this recipe a lot and I think you can get away with using just half the butter in the recipe