This Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread is a family favorite. It’s a quick bread that’s moist and tender, rich and delicious and loaded with chocolate chips. It’s the perfect solution to any chocolate craving.
Ellie, recently left the following comment on this recipe:
BEST THING EVER!!!!! It’s like a chocolate cake, a brownie, and a chocolate muffin had a baby! It’s fudgy, moist and decadent without being too sweet at all! I’ll definitely be making this again IMMEDIATELY!
I couldn’t have described this bread better. Her comment was just the push I needed to update the recipe with some new pictures and share it again with my readers.
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 was making it for a bake sale, and I thought it would sell better. 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.
Making Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread
This recipe uses cocoa instead of melted chocolate which I think adds 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.
I rarely sift flour any more, but I always sift cocoa using a mesh strainer. Cocoa usually has little lumps that don’t easily dissolve during mixing. So it’s a good idea to get in the habit of sifting cocoa.
You can bake this Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread Quick bread in two standard size loaf pans, but I prefer to use mini loaf pans. They’re the perfect size for a bake sale, a gift for a neighbor or friend, or just to tuck in the freezer for a quick treat another day.
This quick bread uses a creaming method for mixing, so it’s more cake like. 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.
Quick breads are always a hit at my house. If your family loves quick breads too, this one is a must try.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups applesauce
- ⅛ teaspoon red gel food coloring optional
- 1 ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- 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 ¾ x 3 ¼ x 2 ¼.)
- In a medium bowl, mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt, 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 tablespoons flour and stir into batter. Spoon batter into prepared pans. Don’t fill more than ⅔ full. Bake side-by-side for about one hour or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. (Bake 35-40 minutes for the mini loaves.)
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Savannagal
What could I use besides applesauce (or pumpkin) in the recipe? I don’t like applesauce and don’t want to buy a jar and throw half away. Is there a substitute I could use and still have the same effect?
Barbara Schieving
Have you seen those little 4 ounce serving cups that come in a 6 pack? They’re nice to have on hand for baking and you wouldn’t waste any applesauce. If haven’t tried it in this recipe, but I often use sour cream or Greek yogurt in quick breads.
Ellie
BEST THING EVER!!!!!
It’s like a chocolate cake, a brownie, and a chocolate muffin had a baby! It’s fudgy, moist and decadent without being too sweet at all!
I’ll definitely be making this again IMMEDIATELY!
Barbara Schieving
Thanks so much Ellie! I need to make it again soon and update the pictures. I’ll have to use your description when I share it 🙂
Michele Quanstrom
The recipe doesn’t state to use regular cocoa powder or Dutch processed. Also, if I sub oil for butter would it be the same measurement of 1 cup?
Barbara Schieving
Hi Michele – unless a recipe specifies Dutch processed, always use regular cocoa. You can’t substitute oil for butter in recipes where the butter is creamed together with the sugar. It doesn’t work well. Although, if you wanted you could skip the creaming process and try it.
Leah
I’ve been baking professionally for 6 years. Today I tried this recipe, subbing oil for the applesauce. Quite easily the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth.
Barbara Schieving
Hi Leah – I think you’re confusing this recipe with recipes that substitute applesauce for the fat. If you used 1 cup of butter and 1 1/2 cups of oil, your ratios were definitely out of wack and I’m not surprised your end result was a disappointment.
Jan
Hi, do I use sweetened or sugar-free applesauce in this recipe? Thanks.
Barbara Schieving
Hi Jan – I always use the unsweetened applesauce in recipes. Enjoy!
Vika
What is the sauce on top of the bread?
Barbara Schieving
The top is drizzle with melted white and dark chocolate.
Sheila
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
Barbara Schieving
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!
Sheila
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.
Radell
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.
Kaye Kay
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.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks for the heads up Kaye. Yes, add the cocoa powder with the flour. I’ve updated the recipe. Enjoy the bread!
Heather
I am getting ready to put this in the oven. I used banana flavored applesauce and it that batter is ALREADY so delicious!! 🙂
Bree
Wow. This was super delicious! Thank you so much! I served it with sugared chopped strawberries in their syrup.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Bree for letting me now how much you liked it. Serving it with strawberries sounds like a great idea.
Kathleen
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. 🙂
Barbara Schieving
Both toppings sound fabulous. So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the follow-up.
Kathleen
This looks amazing and will be baked at my house this week. What did you use for the zig-zags on top?
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Kathleen – I just decorated the top with a little melted white and semi-sweet chocolate.
Kathleen
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. 🙂
Beth
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!
Barbara Schieving
Pumpkin and chocolate are a great combination. Thanks for letting me know it’s a good substitution in this recipe.
nsteinpfad
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!
Barbara
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!
Kirstin
How do you halve the 3 large eggs?
Barbara Schieving
Hi Kristin – add one egg and whisk another egg and use just half of it.
Florentina
This looks so good I wanna get chocolate wasted !lol
Lynn
I made your bread and it was yummy 🙂
msmeanie
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.
Mary
I'm salivating! Need to go home and bake this asap! Looks sooo good!
xxMK
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comfycook
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?