Baking a Chocolate Banana Bread

If you love chocolate and if you ever have brown bananas laying around that no one eats, this is the perfect recipe for you. Overripe bananas are the key factor to making a delicious banana bread. They will be sweeter and easier to mash!

Anyone with the age of 14 or above could easily make this bread! This banana bread can be made in an hour, 10 minutes of prep time and 50 minutes in the oven, and you will have 1 loaf that can feed up to 8 people. Follow this recipe to have a delicious banana bread.

Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy (STELs):

Practices

• Making and Doing
  • People will follow the instructable to make banana bread. They can change or add stuff to make the bread that best fits their taste. They can take out the walnuts or even the chocolate.
• Creativity
  • They can change things up in the reciepe to add their own flare to it.

Context

• Material Conversion and Processing
  • This instructable uses many materials like various food products, mixing bowls, and measuring cups to make the banana bread. They can take this opportunity to dive deeper and see how these stuff are actually made.

Objective:

At the end of this instructable, people will be able to

• make chocolate banana bread.
• have the ability to follow step by step instructions.

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 3 large brown bananas
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter (melted)
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup walnuts

Supplies

• Mixing bowl
• 9 inch x 5 inch loaf pan
• Measuring cups

Estimated Price: >$15.00

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease your loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, smash your three bananas with anything you have laying around. A spoon, fork, or whisk will work.

After smashing the bananas, you will now add the wet ingredients into the mixing bowl. Crack an egg, add the oil, the melted butter, and the pure vanilla extract. Mix well.

After mixing the wet ingredients and the bananas well, you will now add the dry ingredients. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, brown sugar, and salt. Mix together well.

After mixing, add in the chocolate chip as well.

Pour the batter into the prepare loaf pan. Sprinkle a little bit of chocolate chips and walnuts on top.

Put the pan in the oven and set a timer for 50 - 65 minutes. By sticking a toothpick in the center of the bread, you can check if it is ready or not. If the toothpick comes out mostly clean it is ready. If it comes out with batter on it leave it in the oven for a few more minutes.

After baking, take it out and let it cool.

ENJOY!