Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe with Walnuts

 

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe with Walnuts

 

Ingredients

3 overripe and big bananas

1 cup of flour

2 tsp of baking soda

1 tsp of kosher salt

1 and 1/2 cup of flour

1 cup of melted butter

1 cup of granulated sugar

1 egg

1 egg yolk

1/2 cup of sour cream

1 tablespoon of vanilla

Chocolate chips

Walnuts

Method 

This Recipe is very healthy and beneficial, it is the typically chocolate chip banana recipe with walnuts in all its parts.

To get started we should have overripe bananas and when you're got overripe bananas, there's nothing better than a fresh baked loaf of banana bread.

This recipe makes a fair amount of batter, so we're using a nine inch loaf pan. Chocolate and walnuts are the main ingredients of that typically chocolate chip and walnuts banana bread recipe.

I've got a nice big piece of parchment paper. My favorite way to fit it is taking your piece of parchment paper and lay it on top of your loaf pan, then you just stick your fingers into the corners of the pan to make these very subtle marks of where the corners are. After that, cut a straight line to each corner.

The main ingredient of that recipe is ripe bananas, but If you don't have ripe bananas, you can bake your bananas in the oven at 300 degrees for 15 minutes to half an hour until they're black and shiny on the outside.

And then they'll be perfectly mushy and ready to be mashed.

You can mash the bananas with a potato masher or a fork.

After mashing the bananas set them aside.

And now you can get started on the mixing.

You have to use a medium bowl, to mix all the dry ingredients

Which are flour, baking soda and a half a teaspoon of kosher salt.

Whisk them together.

Slightly bigger bowl for this.

With a Plain old granulated white sugar.

And One whole egg and one egg yolk. The yolk just makes the bread a little bit richer and moister so,

I'm just going to use the shell

Now you've got your sour cream.

Typically you put milk in the batter of banana bread but you're using sour cream because it adds a really nice tanginess and a bit of richness.

Word to the wise, Use full fat sour cream. It's way more flavorful than the low fat stuff.

Mix fat equals flavors, sour cream and a teaspoon of vanilla.

And then you'll add your bananas.

Once we combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients, we don't really want to stir too much, so it's good to get everything fully incorporated. Before you combine the wet and the dry, make sure this is smooth and everything is incorporated.

it's really important with banana bread and really all quick breads that 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 when it comes out of the oven.

The best way to make sure that you're not over mixing is just to be carefully folding rather than using like a wooden spoon or something where you're just like stirring around working all that flour.

A gentle fold is way better as it incorporates everything slowly and evenly.

Lumps are definitely okay but you don't really want to be seeing any dry flour.

Make sure you're getting to that center bottom of the bowl when you're folding.

It's easier to just keep going around the edge.

But sometimes I'll find a hidden pocket right in the center.

So this is how your batter will look before your mix ends.

So if you just wanted to do a plain banana bread, you could just pop this right in your loaf pan and start baking it.

But we're going to add some goodies.

Because at least personally I don'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 you've also got walnuts, toasted walnuts.

You could also use pecans or, really anything, any nut, any seed.

You don't need no more than like a cup, a cup and a half of mix-ins per banana bread though

I'm going to fold both of these in, but I'm going to reserve just a few of each of them so I can sprinkle some on top just for presentation.

You can also add spices like cinnamon or nutmeg to this. This is looking nice and incorporated, so I'm going to grab our loaf pan. Give it a little spritz, Canola oil Just to make things easier.

smooth the top of it so it bakes nice and even.

set aside a few chocolate chips and walnuts.

Just to top our loaf with.

I like doing this not only because it looks pretty but it's also kind of nice to show people what's inside.

After that you need to pop your banana bread in the oven for about an hour at 350 degrees.

You'll keep checking it intermittently with a toothpick. Just poking it right in the center.

And when it comes out clean it's ready.

After 50 minutes it's time to check on our banana bread.

Looking good.

I suspect it's ready but we can use a toothpick just to be sure.

It's clean, we're good.

let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then  pull it out and let it cool on the cooling rack for like 30 then we can slice in to it.

Chocolate and walnut in every bite.