Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread (or Cake)

Do you like banana?

I don’t. Unless it’s an ice cream flavor or in THIS cake!

Quoting: “This is the best dessert you’ve ever made and one of the best I’ve ever tried!”, Pan (husband).

This is my first banana bread and I was impressed! Mashed banana can do miracles for the softness and moistness of a cake.

And melting chocolate chunks can do miracles for, well, everything!

I don’t have step-step photos, because the process for baking a cake is, more or less, always the same.

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF (180ºC), butter a loaf pan and line with parchment paper.
2. Beat the sugar with the butter until creamy.
3. Add the eggs and beat.
4. Add the mashed bananas, yogurt and vanilla extract and continue beating.
5. Add the flour mixed with the baking soda and the salt.
6. Mix in the chocolate chunks.
7. Pour the batter in the loaf pan and bake for 50min to 1h. Check with a wooden skewer at 50min to see if it’s done.
8. Let it cool just for a while in the pan and place it on the plate.
9. Let it cool completely, OR NOT! 🙂

It’s a very simple recipe, and the result is particularly rewarding!

Serve and let the compliments pour like rain on you…

Have a nice day!

INGREDIENTS

Recipe from Martha Stewart with just a change

115g unsalted butter, room temp.

240g sugar

2 eggs, room temp.

1½ cup mashed bananas (4-5 overripe bananas, depending on the size)

15g Greek yogurt

1 tsp vanilla extract

170g all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

170g dark chocolate, cut into chunks