This double chocolate banana bread is a decadent dessert-like breakfast or an anytime treat to satisfy your chocolate cravings! It has cocoa powder in the batter itself and is also topped with a chocolate ganache and mini chocolate chips! When you serve this easy bread, every chocolate lover will thank you!
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Instructions
Chocolate Banana Bread
Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C) and grease your loaf pan or spray with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the melted, cooled butter with bananas and mash up the bananas. Add the eggs, milk, vanilla extract, baking soda, baking powder and sugar and stir to combine.
Stir the unsweetened cocoa into your wet ingredients, then add the salt, flour and stir until you have a somewhat thick and lumpy batter.
Pour the batter into your greased loaf pan and bake at 375°F (190°C) for 45 minutes, if using the smaller loaf pans. Check the loaves by inserting a knife through the center of the loaf. You can have crumbs attached, but should not still have a batter appearance on the inserted knife.
If you are using a larger loaf pan for one loaf of double chocolate banana bread, then bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 1 hour before checking your banana bread with an inserted knife. When baking a larger loaf, I start checking at the hour mark but the bake time runs about 1 hour 15 minutes.
Remove the loaves from the oven and allow to cool in the loaf pan(s) for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Chocolate Ganache
Once the chocolate banana bread loaves are cooled, heat the ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and matching ¼ cup butter in a small microwave safe bowl in 30 second increments. Stir between each 30 second interval until your ganache is smooth and shiny. Spread or drizzle over your chocolate banana bread. Top by sprinkling (optional) mini chocolate chips over the ganache.
Notes
Using room temperature ingredients helps to ensure that the batter mixes together perfectly without over-mixing, creating the best texture for your bread!
To make two loaves, use the 8"x4" smaller loaf pans and bake at 375°F (190°C).
To make one loaf, use a standard 9"x5" loaf pan and bake at a reduced temperature of 350°F (175°C) to prevent scorching the crust of your double chocolate banana bread.
Check the loaves by inserting a knife through the center of the loaf. You can have crumbs attached, but should not still have a batter appearance on the inserted knife.
Feel free to mix in some tasty additions like chopped pecans, walnuts, (more) chocolate chips, banana slices, or more!