A moist, delicious banana bread loaded with chocolate chunks and nuts. Perfect for breakfast or an afternoon or late night snack.
We make a lot of banana bread/banana muffins at our house and I’m always looking for fun ways to change it up. I had a bag of Scharffenberger chocolate chunks I’d been wanting to bake with and when I decided to add them to banana bread, Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey Ice Cream came to mind.
Their popular banana ice cream is loaded with chocolate chunks and walnuts, but my favorite nut is almonds, so I switched it up and used toasted sliced almonds. I thought about using macadamia nuts for an extra tropical flair, but didn’t want to make a trip to the store. Maybe I’ll try that next time.
I made 4 mini loaves. I love making the mini loaves because they cook in half the time and are easy to share. Not that any of these loaves were shared. They were all gobbled up by the next day.
I have to admit that I haven’t ever eaten Chunky Monkey ice cream. Something I think I should remedy soon. Are you a Chunky Monkey fan?
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup sour cream (I used low fat)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup coarsely smashed (chunky) very ripe banana (about 3 small)
- 1 6 oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chunks
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted and cooled
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350º
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- Combine sugar, melted butter, sour cream, eggs and vanilla in a large mixing bowl; beat until well blended. Stir in bananas. Add flour mixture to banana mixture, stirring just until moistened. Mix in chocolate chunks and nuts.
- Spoon batter into an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3-inch loaf pan coated with baking spray with flour. Bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan, and cool completely on a wire rack before cutting.
- *I made 4 mini loaves. Bake mini loaves for 30 minutes or muffins for 18 minutes.
More recipes you might like:
Banana Nutella Bread, Barbara Bakes
Homemade Chunky Monkey Ice Cream, What’s Gaby Cooking
Raspberry- Dark Chocolate Banana Bread, Recipe Boy
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Plus Sweet Banana Recipe Roundup, Foodie Crush
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I love this!! Though it would be dangerous in my house because I would eat the whole thing myself!
Oh, I’d love a slice now! Your bread looks so tempting.
Cheers,
Rosa
This sounds so delicious! Yum!
Barbara, this looks amazing!! I love, love, LOVE banana bread…and with those huge chocolate chunks?!?!? YUM.
What a fitting title! And I love making mini loaves too. The big ones always burn on the sides for me.
This sounds and looks delicious!
Is it banana month and I just don’t realize it? Everyone is making banana something. I better hop on that. I’ve never had chunky monkey ice cream, but I think Cade has. Either way, looks lovely!
The mini loaves look so cute and I’ve bookmarked this recipe!
I will gladly take some of these off your hands-yum!
Chocolate + banana can save the world – my fave flavor combo! Loving this banana bread. I just made ark chocolate raspberry banana bread over the weekend.. bananas must be in the air!
Reminds me of my mom’s banana bread! (Without chocolate chips though.)
Love it! I’m always looking for new banana bread recipes!
Banana bread with chocolate CHUNKS really amps up its goodness:)
Mmmm–looks so good. We love chocolate chips in our banana bread/muffins, in fact, the kids are mad at me when I don’t put them in and then won’t eat any. Love the chunks look.
Mmm…I have some bananas that are just dying to be eaten. This is perfect!
I love Scharffenberger chocolate chunks and they go great in this recipe. Love the smaller loaves, too
Oh my gosh, those chunks of chocolate in there look absolutely amazing! I love chocolate chips in my banana bread (and as a banana ripeness snob, I go through quite a few batches of banana bread), though I have to admit, I play around with flavors when i’m churning, but when I am at the store and I’m picking out ice cream? It’s chocolate chocolate chocolate. Mmm…now I want ice cream
No kidding chunky monkey! This looks delicious.
Okay i’m trying this one for sure! Looks fab Barbara!
Nom nom nom I could gobble these up in no time. I love banana bread. I don’t think adding chocolate to it would be a good idea for me though. Without the chocolate I can fool myself into thinking it’s healthy right? Cause it has fruit? hehe
Awesome banana bread flavor! Thanks for linking to RecipeBoy’s recipe! We loved that one.
you just cant go wrong with a banana bread.. it is always my go-to bread for some quick-fix baking!! and yours looks fantastic!!
This would make me chunky monkey but I wouldn’t care!
OMG delish! Maybe Kelley and I can share a slice, so she doesn’t have to eat it all herself. Gorg! And thanks for the link!!
wow. it looks awesome! Have a wonderful time dear Barbara!
You can’t never go wrong with the combo of chocolate and banana! Yummy!
I’ve never had chunky monkey ice cream, but I might have to try it along with this bread! Lovely flavor combinations…
I’ve never had Chunky Monkey Ice cream either. Maybe we should take some to the condo in July and remendy it together. hehe The bread looks terrific and makes me want to run to the store to get bananas. Maybe I should get some macadamia nuts too. Hmmm, sounds so good!!!
I love Chunky Monkey ice cream, but never thought to incorporate its flavor into banana bread! This is genius
Excited to have found your blog!
I have never had Chunky Monday ice cream either. We have such wonderful, locally-made frozen custard here that we always buy their freshly made flavors. I would totally love banana bread with nuts and chocolate, though!
You bet, I definitely am a chunky monkey fan. Love that you used chocolate chunks.
Chocolate and banana are so hard to say no to! Nuts just makes it complete. I love that you made mini loafs. They look so pretty. Great recipe, Barb. Thanks for sharing it.
I looovee Chunky Monkey ice cream, it’s one of my favorites! Love that you made a banana bread version of the ice cream.
Love baking with bananas and I love Ben & Jerry’s chunky monkey too – brilliant idea to incorporate that into your bake. I have a few bananas ripening so may give this a go!
Every Friday, I share my favorite food finds in a series called Food Fetish Friday. I love this post so much I’m featuring it as part of the roundup (with a link-back and attribution) and I hope you have no objections. It’s a pleasure following your creations…
These mini loaves look delicious.
I just discovered a whole bunch of almonds in my freezer – this would be perfect!!
Awesome recipe,
I love banana bread
Here’s anther recipe you might like.
http://www.wascene.com/food-drink/delicious-banana-bread-recipe/
Thanks for sharing,
Soph