Mini Whole Wheat Banana Breads with Chocolate Chips

Name: Mini Whole Wheat Banana Breads with Chocolate Chips
Prep time: 1 h 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 3 very ripe bananas; 118 milliliters canola oil; 1 large egg; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground ginger; 0 teaspoons kosher salt; 118 milliliters light brown sugar; 118 milliliters milk; 118 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 237 milliliters whole wheat flour

Mini Whole Wheat Banana Breads with Chocolate Chips might be just the morn meal you are searching for. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 304 calories, 4g of protein, and 13g of fat. If you have kosher salt, milk, brown sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Coat the sides and bottoms of 4 mini loaf pans (5 3/4 by 3 1/4 by 2 1/4 inches) with nonstick cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

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Loaf Pan

Oven

Whisk together both flours, the baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside 1 tablespoon of the dry mixture in a small bowl.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Ginger

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Using a fork, mash 2 1/2 bananas with both sugars in a large bowl until the mixture is mostly smooth with a few small pieces of banana.

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Banana

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Bowl

Add the oil and egg and stir until combined. Stir in the dry ingredients until just combined and then stir in the milk. Toss the chocolate chips with the reserved flour mixture and fold into the batter. Divide the batter among the prepared mini loaf pans. Thinly slice the remaining 1/2 banana and place 4 to 5 slices in an overlapping line down the center of each mini loaf on top of the batter.

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Chocolate Chips

Banana

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Loaf Pan

Bake until the tops of the loaves are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool the breads in the pans for 10 minutes and then turn each pan upside down to release the breads. Cool completely, banana slice side up, on a wire rack.

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Banana

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Toothpicks

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Cook's Notes: To freeze for later use, wrap each loaf first in plastic wrap and then foil. Take out the frozen loaves the night before using and thaw in the refrigerator.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Aluminum Foil

You can also bake the batter as 1 large loaf in a greased 9-by-5-inch metal loaf pan for 55 to 60 minutes, covering the bread in the last 10 minutes with a piece of foil if it browns too quickly. Cool in the pan 10 minutes and then turn out and cool completely on a wire rack.

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Bread