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Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
Moist and delicious, this rich banana bread has bursts of dark chocolate in every bite.
Prep Time
10
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
1
hour
hour
15
minutes
minutes
Total Time
1
hour
hour
25
minutes
minutes
Servings
2
loaves
Calories
Author
Marye Audet-White
Ingredients
½
cup
oil
(peanut, sunflower, walnut, other light oil)
½
cup
browned unsalted butter
⅔
cup
buttermilk
2
cups
very ripe mashed banana
4
eggs
1 ¾
cups
white sugar
¾
cup
brown sugar
½
teaspoon
vanilla
2
tablespoons
orange juice
2
tablespoons
orange
zest
3 ½
cups
flour
2
teaspoons
baking soda
½
teaspoon
salt
1
cup
chopped pecans
1
cup
bittersweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325F.
Grease 2 loaf pans.
Melt the butter in a heavy pan until it is golden brown - let cool to lukewarm.
Beat
the oil, eggs, vanilla, orange juice, orange
zest
, both sugars and buttermilk until
well blended
.
Beat
in the cooled butter and banana.
Mix the flour, baking soda and salt and stir into the banana mixture until
well blended
.
Add pecans and chocolate chips - blend well.
Spoon into two greased loaf pans and bake at 325f for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick stuck into the center of a loaf comes out clean.
Cool in pans for 15 minutes then turn out and finish cooling.