Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread
The third bread I made for the Bake Sale was Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread. If you’re a chocolate lover, you’ll love this moist, delicious chocolate quick bread. It’s an updated version of the Triple Chocolate Cherry Quick Bread I made in February. I eliminated the cherries because I thought it would sell better, because some people don’t like dried fruit in their breads. My oldest son was disappointed it didn’t have the cherries, but that didn’t stop him from gobbling up half a mini loaf. I’ll probably add a cup of coarsely chopped cherries next time.
This time I used cocoa instead of melted chocolate which added a deeper chocolate flavor. I also added a little bit of red food coloring so that the rich chocolate flavor would pop in a photo. (A tip I read online somewhere since chocolate quick breads tend to look grey in pictures.) Feel free to omit the food coloring if you’d like.
All three quick breads are easy and delicious and my family loved them all. If you’d like to get more information about baking quick breads, The Prepared Pantry has a nice All About Baking: Quick Breads page with great information.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter, soften
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups applesauce
- 1/8 tsp red gel food coloring, optional
- 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F and spray two medium (9 x 5) loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray, or four/five mini loaf pans (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/4.) Don’t fill more than 2/3 full.
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy, about two minutes. Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition. Add the vanilla and applesauce and mix until well combined.
Add the dry ingredients stirring until just combined. Coat the chocolate chips with 2 T. flour and stir into batter.
Spoon batter into prepared pans. Bake side-by-side for about one hour or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. (Bake 35-40 minutes for the mini loaves.)
Hi, do I use sweetened or sugar-free applesauce in this recipe? Thanks.
Hi Jan – I always use the unsweetened applesauce in recipes. Enjoy!
What is the sauce on top of the bread?
The top is drizzle with melted white and dark chocolate.
Can you tell me what I may have done wrong. Both loaves fell in the middle and one of them was liquid in the middle. I cooked them the same amount of time as you had directed. I just wondered if you might could tell me why that happened. Thanks
Hi Sheila – sounds like you needed to bake them much longer. Every oven cooks differently, and the type of pan you use makes a difference in cook time as well. To tell if the loaves are done, check to see that the top bounces back when gently pushed. Check to see if the loaves are pulling away from the sides of the pan. If those things happen, then use a toothpick to check and see if the center is done by inserting it into the middle of the loaves and if the toothpick comes out mostly clean, it’s done. The more you bake, the easier it gets to tell. Hang in there!
I had baked zucchini bread, banana nut bread, a lemon blueberry bread, and cinnamon struessel bread and had no problem. I had the problem with the chocolate chocolate chip bread and then tried making a Strawberry bread and it fell also. I just thought maybe there was something I was missing with those 2. I don’t know…..but, thank you for responding.
I had to replace 1 egg with 1/4 cup olive oil and used 1/4 cup yogurt to replace half the butter. It came out quite moist and delicious.
Unfortunately, your directions don’t say when to add the half cup of cocoa powder into the recipe. It’s only listed as an ingredient. I caught this omission after I mixed the wet and dry ingredients, right before adding the chips. I quickly sifted the cocoa into the mix and whipped it in, then added the chocolate chips. It mixed pretty well but I am sure the cocoa was supposed to be added with all the other dry ingredients, no? The loaves are baking right now. Hope they work out. Batter tasted yummy, tho.
Thanks for the heads up Kaye. Yes, add the cocoa powder with the flour. I’ve updated the recipe. Enjoy the bread!
I am getting ready to put this in the oven. I used banana flavored applesauce and it that batter is ALREADY so delicious!! 🙂
Wow. This was super delicious! Thank you so much! I served it with sugared chopped strawberries in their syrup.
Thanks Bree for letting me now how much you liked it. Serving it with strawberries sounds like a great idea.
I made your bread last week and it was delicious! I made a salted caramel sauce to drizzle on top. I am about to make another batch tonight, but with a salted caramel flavored melted chocolate over it. 🙂
Both toppings sound fabulous. So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the follow-up.
This looks amazing and will be baked at my house this week. What did you use for the zig-zags on top?
Thanks Kathleen – I just decorated the top with a little melted white and semi-sweet chocolate.
Sounds perfect! Thanks again and we are all so excited for this. My 5 year old keeps asking when we are going to bake it. She loves to be my little helper. 🙂
My daughter made your recipe tonight. We did not have any applesauce so she substituted a full can of pumpkin. The bread turned out having a lighter color than yours. The texture was so velvety and moist. It was so delicious! Glad she found this recipe!
Pumpkin and chocolate are a great combination. Thanks for letting me know it’s a good substitution in this recipe.
I made this bread, but halved the ingredients to make a single loaf instead of two, and it turned out delicious! Very moist and yummy – just the recipe I was looking for!
Thanks for taking the time to come back and let me know you made the bread. This is one of my favorite quick breads. So glad you thought it was delicious too!
How do you halve the 3 large eggs?
Hi Kristin – add one egg and whisk another egg and use just half of it.
This looks so good I wanna get chocolate wasted !lol
I made your bread and it was yummy 🙂
Love it. The bread looks fabulous and I love the use of apple-sauce. I really think apple sauce adds a lot of moistness to a qui.ck bread. This sounds delicious.
I'm salivating! Need to go home and bake this asap! Looks sooo good!
xxMK
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You made that quick bread look like a star. How am I ever going to bake all your great recipes when you keep adding more?