At Little Welches, you are welcomed with slices of irresistible, homemade, Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread. Paired with a steaming cup of coffee or tea, our Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is the perfect way to recharge after a long journey.
Crafted during the Covid pandemic, Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread has been a labour of love, evolving into its current form through continuous refinement. It was inspired by a recipe from “The Hummingbird Bakery” cookbook which over time has been adapted.
I’ve reduced the sugar, ginger, and baking soda, while adding generous chunks of chocolate for a touch of indulgence.
For the best flavour and texture, when making our Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread be sure to use over-ripe bananas.
You can also opt for light muscovado sugar to enhance the cake’s richness and moisture.
Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Ingredients:
- 200g (or 7oz) soft light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 200g (or 7oz) over-ripe peeled bananas, mashed
- 100g (or 7oz) Belgian Dark Chocolate 54% roughly chopped (I use a food processor)
- 280g (or 10oz) plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon ground ginger
- 140g (or 5oz) unsalted butter, melted
Use a 23x13cm (or 9x5in) bread loaf tin, greased and lined with cooking parchment paper. This makes 8‑10 slices of our Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
Preheat the oven to 170°C (or 325°F or Gas Mark 3).
Put the sugar and eggs in a freestanding electric mixer with a paddle attachment (or use a handheld electric whisk) and beat until well incorporated.
Beat in the mashed bananas.
Add the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and ginger to the sugar mixture. Mix it thoroughly until all the dry ingredients have been incorporated into the egg mixture.
Pour in the melted butter and then chocolate chunks beat until all the ingredients are well mixed. Pour the mixture into the prepared bread loaf tin and smooth over with a palette knife.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour, or until firm to the touch and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Leave your Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread to cool slightly in the tin before turning out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
There you have it our Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread recipe to enjoy and try when you get home.
Top tips for making: Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Here are our top tips for making Little Welches Chocolate Chip Banana Bread when you get home:
Use over-ripe bananas
- Use over-ripe bananas – the blacker the skin the better. Overripe bananas give the banana bread more moisture, sweetness and flavour.
Do not over mix the batter
- For soft and tender banana bread — don’t overmix! The more you mix, the more gluten will develop. The result will be a tough, rubbery banana bread. Simply stir until moist, and then do no more.
The colour of your baking loaf tin matters!
- Darker metal baking tins absorb more heat in the oven than lighter tins, and given that black metal is a great heat conductors, your banana bread will heat up faster on the edges if you bake it in a dark metal baking tin. We use a light grey coloured non stick baking loaf tin.
Check it is perfectly done
- While it’s still in the oven, insert a skewer into the centre of the banana bread. If the skewer comes out clean — or with just a crumb or two sticking to the skewer — it’s ready. If the skewer has any raw batter sticking to it, put the bread back in the oven for about 5 minutes, and then check it again.
Let your banana bread cool
- You should remove the banana bread from the pan fairly soon after it comes out of the oven. The longer it sits in the pan, the soggier the bottom will become. Allow your banana bread to cool completely on a cooling rack before transferring it to an airtight container.
- Warm bread wrapped in plastic wrap leads to condensation which leads to mold! Also, cooling the bread firms up the structure and makes for cleaner slices.
Fun fact
- Banana bread is essentially a banana cake. It is referred to as a bread because it is baked in a bread loaf tin! For the same reason banana bread is sometimes also referred to as a banana loaf.
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