Chocolate Banana Bread
A seriously tasty sweet treat, that's as good for your health as it is for the soul! Perfect with a cup of tea and chat with a friend!
Takes
Serves 10
Ingredients
- 100 g choc chips or chocolate chopped into chips
- 200 g white flour/ white spelt/ Buckwheat or GF flour
- 1.50 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bread soda
- 120 ml sunflower/ coconut oil
- 150 g liquid sweetener such as maple syrup agave syrup, brown rice syrup etc
- 2 tbsp ground flax seeds
- 6 tbsp water
- 3 ripe bananas
- 50 g walnuts
Instructions
- In a glass or cup mix the ground flax and water and leave to sit for 5 mins until it coagulates.
- In a large bowl add the dry ingredients, ( flour, cinnamon, baking powder, bread soda)
- In a blender add the wet ingredients, the peeled bananas, sunflower oil, liquid sweetener, soaked ground flax and blend till smooth.
- If you don’t have a blender mash the bananas and in a bowl mix the wet ingredients till well mixed.
- Add the dry and wet ingredients together and mix till a lovely smooth batter.
- Roughly chop or crush the walnuts.
- Add the chocolate chips and crushed walnuts and mix well.
- Line a baking tray approx 23cm x 15 cm x 5 cm heigh with baking parchment.
- Pour in the batter into the lined baking tray.
- For decoration if you want you can cut a banana lengthwise in half and put on the top of the batter to caramelise in the oven, add a few extra choc chips on top before baking too for an extra indulgent looking banana bread!
- Bake for approx 60 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Leave to cool and cut and enjoy!