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?
Chunky Monkey Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup butter melted
- ½ 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
- ½ cup sliced almonds toasted and cooled
Instructions
- 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 ½ x 4 ½ 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.
Notes
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
Claire @ Claire K Creations
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
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc
Okay i’m trying this one for sure! Looks fab Barbara!
Paula
No kidding chunky monkey! This looks delicious.
Anna
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 😀
CJ at Food Stories
I love Scharffenberger chocolate chunks and they go great in this recipe. Love the smaller loaves, too 🙂
Caroline @ chocolate & carrots
Mmm…I have some bananas that are just dying to be eaten. This is perfect! 😀
Katrina
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.
Sue
Banana bread with chocolate CHUNKS really amps up its goodness:)
Megan
Love it! I’m always looking for new banana bread recipes!
Stephanie
Reminds me of my mom’s banana bread! (Without chocolate chips though.)
sally @ sally's baking addiction
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!
love2dine
I will gladly take some of these off your hands-yum!
Cheah
The mini loaves look so cute and I’ve bookmarked this recipe!
carrian
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!
Lauren
This sounds and looks delicious!
Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious
What a fitting title! And I love making mini loaves too. The big ones always burn on the sides for me.
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl
Barbara, this looks amazing!! I love, love, LOVE banana bread…and with those huge chocolate chunks?!?!? YUM.
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
This sounds so delicious! Yum!
Rosa
Oh, I’d love a slice now! Your bread looks so tempting.
Cheers,
Rosa
kelley {mountain mama cooks}
I love this!! Though it would be dangerous in my house because I would eat the whole thing myself! 🙂