How To Make Perfect Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Every Time | Delish Insanely Easy
- When you're got overripe bananas,
there's nothing better than
a fresh baked loaf of banana bread.
I'm gonna show you our favorite recipe.
We're gonna to do two things.
One is mash the bananas.
And two line our loaf pan.
This recipe makes a fair amount of batter
so we're using a nine inch loaf pan.
I've got a nice bigpiece of parchment paper.
And I'm gonna show you guysmy favorite way to fit it.
So you take your piece of parchment paper
and lay it on top of your loaf pan.
And then you just stick your fingers
into the corners of the pan to make these
very subtle marks ofwhere the corners are.
And then cut a straightline to each corner.
Now when you slide it in,
Nice.
I like having a little bit of overhang.
That way when the bread is done,
it can just lift it right out.
Which is really nice instead of trying
to like dig it out.
So that's that.
Our beautiful parchment.
So I've got some lovely ripe bananas here.
Since these are kindasmall I'm gonna use three.
If you don't have ripe bananas,
you can bake your bananasin the oven at 300 degrees
for 15 minutes to half an hour
until they're black andshiny on the outside.
And then they'll be perfectlymushy and ready to be mashed.
You can also use a potatomasher if you'd like
but I think a fork works just fine.
Doesn't have to be perfect but you do want
to make sure there's no bigchunks in your banana bread.
You can just set this aside.
And now we can get started on the mixing.
So starting with a medium bowl,
I'm mixing all the dry ingredients.
We've got flour, baking soda,
and a half a teaspoon of kosher salt.
Just gonna give this a whiskand that is good to go.
Now we're doing our wet ingredients.
Slightly bigger bowl for this.
And we're gonna startwith our melted better.
Plain old granulated white sugar.
One whole egg and one egg yolk.
The yolk just makes thebread a little bit richer.
And more moist so,
sorry I said moist but it's true.
I'm just going to use the shell
to separate the yolk from thewhite and we'll just leave
the white in the bowl.
Here we go.
Now we've got our sour cream.
Typically you put milk inthe batter of banana bread
but we're using sour cream because it adds
a really nice tanginessand a bit of richness.
Word to the wise.
Use full fat sour cream.
It's way more flavorfulthan the low fat stuff.
Fat equals flavor as we know
and sour cream is no different.
And vanilla.
Just a teaspoon.
Now I'm just mixing allthese ingredients together
and then we'll add our bananas.
Once we combine the dry ingredients
with the wet ingredients,
we don't really wanna stir too much
so it's good to geteverything fully incorporated
before you combine the wet and the dry.
So I'm just making sure this is smooth.
Everything's incorporated.
All right, that looks nice.
Nice and smooth.
Banana going in.
Bananas are mixed and it's time
to start incorporatingour dry ingredients.
We're gonna do this ina couple installments.
But it's really importantwith banana bread
and really all quick breadsthat you don't over mix
your batter because it'll make
the end product a little bit tough.
Don't worry about getting every lump out.
It'll be totally fine whenit comes out of the oven.
The best way to make surethat you're not over mixing
is just to be carefullyfolding rather than using
like a wooden spoon orsomething where you're just like
stirring around working all that flour.
A gentle fold is waybetter 'cause it just,
it incorporates everythingslowly and evenly.
Lumps are definitely okaybut you don't really want
to be seeing any dry flour.
Make sure you're gettingto that center bottom
of the bowl when you're folding.
It's easier to just keepgoing around the edge.
But sometimes I'll find a hiddenpocket right in the center.
So this is how your batterwill look before your mix ends.
So if you just wanted todo a plain banana bread,
you could just pop this right in
your loaf pan and start baking it.
But we're gonna add some goodies.
Because at least personally Idon't really like banana bread
if it doesn't have chocolate in it.
You could also chop up a chocolate bar
and just throw it in there.
And then we've also gotwalnuts, toasted walnuts.
You could also use pecans or,
really anything, any nut, any seed.
I would say no more than like a cup,
a cup and a half of mix-insper banana bread though
so don't go too crazy.
I'm going to fold both of these in
but I'm gonna reservejust a few of each of them
so I can sprinkle some ontop just for presentation.
You can also add spices likecinnamon or nutmeg to this.
This is looking nice and incorporated
so I'm gonna grab our loaf pan.
Give it a little spritz.
Canola oil.
Just to make things easier.
Go, go, go.
I'm just gonna smooth the top of it
so it bakes nice and even.
I set aside a few chocolatechips and walnuts.
Just to top our loaf with.
I like doing this not onlybecause it looks pretty
but it's also kind of niceto show people what's inside.
I'm going to pop ourbanana bread in the oven
for about an hour at 350 degrees.
We'll keep checking itintermittently with a toothpick.
Just poking it right in the center.
And when it comes out clean it's ready.
All right.
It has been 50 minutes.
And it's time to checkon our banana bread.
Lookin' good.
I suspect it's ready but we can use
a toothpick just to be sure.
(gasping)
It's clean, we're good.
So I'm gonna let this cool in the pan
for like 10 minutes andthen I'll pull it out
and let it cool on thecooling rack for like 30
and then we can slice in to it.
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This is why we savedthose extra ingredients.
Doesn't it look so pretty?
I'm an end person soI'm gonna take the end.
Chocolate and walnut in every bite.
I don't think there's anythingyou could do with bananas.
I think this is the best thing
you could ever do with the right banana.
It's stuffed with all the things I like.
Super moist, sorry.
It's a winner.
This is how I like my banana bread
but how do you like yours?
Let me know in the comments below.
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