Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

There is nothing better than turning over-ripe bananas into nutritious banana bread. Baking this loaf is so much fun, and is also really easy to make!

This recipe was put together by Natasa from @nutritionalnatasa, who says: “Banana bread is one of my favourite things to bake, it’s such an easy recipe to throw together and it’s always delicious, perfectly dense, yet still so healthy! Whenever I buy bananas in bulk, I know that a banana loaf will be coming out of the oven sometime that week.”

75 mins

8 people

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INGREDIENTS

3 ripe bananas

60ml maple syrup

60ml Mr Organic Sunflower Oil

60ml coconut milk (or other plant-based milk)

1 heaped Tbsp. flax seeds

3 Tbsp. water

1 tsp. vanilla extract

275g self raising flour

110g brown sugar

1 heaped tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

Vegan dark chocolate chips

METHOD

1. Pre-heat your oven to 180C. Grease a loaf tin and line it with parchment paper.

2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas, and mix in the maple syrup, sunflower oil, milk, flax seeds, water, and vanilla extract until it reaches a smooth consistency.

3. In another bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. Then pour your wet mixture into your dry ingredients and whisk it all together until smooth and fold in your chocolate chip pieces.

Spread the batter into your prepared loaf tin and smoothen it out on top with a spatula and sprinkle some chocolate chips and jumbo oats on top for decorative purposes. Bake for approximately 50-60 minutes, or until golden. If unsure, poke a skewer through the loaf and if it comes out clean, then you know the banana bread is baked all the way through. Once removed from the oven, let the banana bread cool for around 20 minutes before removing it from the tin, then you can cut it into slices and enjoy!