This Best Ever Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is the perfect no-fail breakfast, snack or sweet treat that’s easy to make and bakes up perfectly every single time!
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Happy Monday friends! What better way to start the week than with some fresh, homemade Best Ever Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, am I right? I make this recipe almost weekly in our house and it always vanishes before I even get a slice! It’s my husband and kids’ favourite treat!
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I don’t know about you but we sure go through a lot of bananas in our household! We use them daily in our favourite smoothies, in our breakfast oatmeal, in healthy muffins (and not-s0-healthy muffins too!). We even add them to our favourite pancakes! I seem to always have ripe bananas lying around and so this Best Ever Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is my go-to recipe for using them up! Feel free to make this recipe with or without the chocolate chips! It’s fantastic either way!
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I hope you love this Best Ever Chocolate Chip Banana Bread as much as we do! Let me know in the comments below, what’s your favourite sweet snack to make at home? I’d love to know!
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Best Ever Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Recipe: Ingredients
- butter for greasing the loaf pan
- 3 large ripe bananas
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup oil canola or vegetable oil is best
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Recipe: Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a standard (9-inch by 5-inch) loaf pan with butter, lining it with parchment paper if desired.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas with a fork until no large pieces remain.
- Add the sugar, egg and oil and mix with a wooden spoon until everything is incorporated.
- Measure the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a separate mixing bowl and stir them together with a fork. Once they’re mixed together, dump the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Using a wooden spoon, carefully mix the wet and the dry ingredients together. The danger here is over-mixing which will result in a dense, flat and dry loaf. The best technique for mixing is to scoop underneath the mixture and pull up gently instead of stirring around in a circle (like you’d stir your coffee, for example). Continue mixing this way just until the dry ingredients have been incorporated. It’s fine if there are a few small streaks of flour in the batter; it’s the large pockets of flour you want to make sure are incorporated.
- Add the chocolate chips and stir them in gently, just until incorporated.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin, smoothing it out on top.
- Bake the loaf in the oven at 325 degrees for about 45-55 minutes (depending on your oven), or until it's golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
- Let it cool in the loaf pan for about 10 minutes and then lift it out of the pan using the parchment paper (or turn it out gently if you didn't use the parchment paper) to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Slice and enjoy!
Recipe: Notes
Recipe: Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
This is the BEST banana bread recipe EVER! It’s my go-to as a thank-you gift for friends. I’ve made it multiple times now, and every time I make it I get rave reviews. Just delicious! Thank you, Chrissie!
Great banana bread but trying to find it past all the adds on my
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It was AMAZING I’m 11 and I was able to make it it’s easy I only had one problem,it over followed a bit but it was overall awesome and it tasted great too
Thanks so much for letting us know! Glad you liked it!! So happy to hear you bake at age 11 🙂
Mine overflowed so much.. a lot of it ended up on the bottom of my oven. Not pleasant.
What size of loaf pan did you use? It sounds like your loaf pan was too small.
So glad you liked it as much as we do! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! 🙂
Good banana bread but way too sweet. 1 cup chocolate chips bananas and 3/4 cup sugar not necessary. Next time I’ll add only 1/2 cup sugar or less.
Oh my, this looks amazing!
Omg! This is the best banana bread ever! Moist and chocolatey! No fail at all!
So glad you love it! 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
This looks absolutely amazing!! The perfect treat with my coffee!!
Thank you!
This banana bread is so delicious! My kids loved the little chocolate chips sprinkled in.
Thanks so much!
This banana bread looks amazing! So perfect for my busy mornings!
Thanks!
Sounds so good! I’d love to try this, definitely my kind of breakfast and this is a great way to start my day!
Thanks! Give it a try! It’s delicious:)
Wow I love banana bread yummy!
Enjoy! 🙂
Holy bananas!!!
This is indeed the best CHOCOLATE CHIP BANANA Bread! I just made for my family and came out just perfect 👌 it was a real tentation for me as I do keto, however, my family enjoyed very much.
Al measurements and steps are easy and right, you can’t mess this one, it will work 💯 %.
Thanks for the recipe! 😊 🤗 😘
So glad you loved it!! 🙂
Made this with my daughters and it’s perfect! I reduced the sugar to 1/3 cup and it tasted just as good.
Glad you all loved it! 🙂
This recipe is amazing. Although I did add a few things, such as coconut milk to moisten it and cinnamon and vanilla extract for a bit of added flavour. I also cut back on the sugar and did half while/half brown as a bit of a healthier alternative. Very delicious!
So glad you loved it!
I made this today and it’s perfect!! I did not use baking soda and added vanilla extract. Thank you for sharing your recipe. My daughter enjoyed it. 🙂
So glad you love it as much as we do! Thanks for the positive feedback! 🙂
Ok, I can screw up any recipe and I usually do, but I love to bake so I do what I love. However, my kids did not believe I even made this banana bread because it turned out exactly how it looked in your picture! Thanks! This one is a keeper!
You’re welcome! So glad you enjoyed this recipe! 🙂
Could I substitute olive oil for the veg? Can’t wait to try this!
Yes definitely. It will change the flavour slightly, but it will work. 🙂
This banana bread is absolute PERFECTION! I can’t believe how easy this was and the results… they are to die for. Everyone try this out!! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe 😍
Thank you Ashley! So glad you like it so much❤️!
It looks delicious! To you think you can make it without the chocolate chips and use a sugar free sweetener Duck as monk fruit? My husband has to limit his sugar. Thank you
I’ve never used monk fruit sweetener, so I can’t comment. However, any sugar substitute that acts like sugar in a recipe can be used.
I may or may not have made this delicious piece of indulgence about 20 times this year. For breakfast, for cravings, for guests, for kids – it truly is the perfect recipe for banana bread! Along with the chocolate chips, I also add a handful of chopped walnuts for a bit of a crunch.
Yes! I know, it’s so delicious!!🙂
I thought my banana chocolate chips cake is the best u til I saw and tried this recipe .. really moist and easy to make .. I didn’t need to bring up the heavy kitchen aid .. next time Ull add walnuts
Thank you for your feedback! I’m glad you enjoyed it! ☺️