Chocolate Banana Bread

Name: Chocolate Banana Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 355 milliliters mashed ripe bananas; 113 grams About 1/2 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature; 79 milliliters Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa; 2 larges eggs, at room temperature; 355 milliliters About all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar

You can never have too many morn meal recipes, so give Chocolate Banana Bread a try. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 277 calories, 4g of protein, and 11g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 10. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up eggs, dutch-process cocoa, butter, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Butter and flour a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan (8-cup capacity).

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Loaf Pan

In a bowl, with a mixer on high speed, beat 1/2 cup butter and the sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.

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Butter

Sugar

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Blender

Bowl

Add eggs and beat until well blended. Stir in bananas.

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Banana

Egg

In a small bowl, mix 1 1/2 cups flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt; add to banana mixture and mix just until evenly moistened. Stir in pecans if using.

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Baking Powder

Banana

Pecans

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Pour batter into prepared pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake in a 350 regular or convection oven until a thin wood skewer inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then invert loaf from pan and cool completely on rack, about 1 hour.

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