Chocolate Walnut Banana Bread
This banana bread is whole grain and not too sweet – perfect for snacks and breakfast.
- The Dry
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- The Wet
- 3 medium overripe bananas
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup 1% milk
- 1 tbsp bourbon (!!)
- The Fold-Ins
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 3 tbsp semi-sweet chocolate chips
You know the deal! Mix wet. Mix dry. Mix wet into dry. Fold in chunks. Pour into loaf pan. Bake at 350* for about 45 minutes.
It’s pretty good! Definitely on the healthy side and not that sweet. Almost more like a bread than a dessert, which is how I wanted it for snacks and breakfast.
Nutritional math comes out to about 2.5 kcal per gram, which is about 150 kcal for a half inch thick slice.
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Hi Kath,
Thanks for the yummy snack and breakfast bread idea! A couple questions: do you have to include the bourbon? And what is hemp milk-could you use something else in place of these ingredients? Thanks!!
K
Katie ,
You can absolutely leave out the bourbon. And I don’t see hemp milk in the ingredients!? I used 1% milk – could use skim as well. Or soy or whatever milky substance you like.
Kath
Kath,
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Thanks for your quick response! No, your right there is no hemp milk in the ingredients, I was looking at another recipe with the hemp milk and was just wondering what it was and if it could be exchanged for something I might have
Thanks!
Katie
I see what happens when I go trolling the web, researching recipes…I am forced to choose between a delightfully rich cake-like recipe from Gourmet and this lovely-sounding bread from you, Kath…Healthy hedonists like me face VERY difficult decisions!
Have a lovely weekend
I made this last weekend, and oh. My. Goodness. I love this! It’s not too sweet, and it has that hearty, wheat taste I love.
And don’t even get me started about the bananas. If you ask me, you add bananas to anything and it’s a party.
I didn’t use bourbon, walnuts, or chocolate, because I didn’t have any of those. But, still, fabulous recipe! Thanks for sharing it!
Made this tonight! Can’t wait to try it!
I just tried this recipe, it turned out soooo good! I didn’t have w.w. pastry flour just w.w. flour so I used 1.5 cups w.w. flour and .5 cups wheat germ (read that somewhere). I want to try a lemon zuchini combo in this recipe base next. Thanks for the great recipes!
FINALLY! I’ve been searching for a chocolate chip banana bread recipe for DAYS and I haven’t found one that I’ve taken to…UNTIL THIS!! Yay
I’m totally making this!
SO nice to see somebody whose recipes look like mine. “Dry, wet, fold together, bake at 350″ is pretty standard for my hastily scribbled notes to myself.
I made this bread yesterday, with a few substitutions – agave instead of honey, vanilla instead of bourbon, pecans instead of walnuts, and 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. C’mon Kath, 3T? =)
Thanks for the excellent recipe – love it!
hey kath! its me again…can normal whole wheat flour be used instead of pastry flour?
It might be a bit denser, but you can use it.
Hi Kath! This recipe is great! We didn’t have bourbon so I put in a little vanilla extract instead. It’s really moist! 2 Thumbs up!
hi Kath, i was looking for a different crust for one of my cheesecakes and decided to try this recipe. Supermoist and delicious. What a great way to enjoy banana bread and cheesecake at the same time. I even tried to make a zucchini bread with this recipe and it was delicious. If ever in new jersey come by for a sample.
Just made this last night without walnuts and more chocolate chips! Was very good. One question, what size loaf pan did you use?
A standard one? I’m not sure of the exact size, but it was not a mini nor a large
I can’t wait to make this! I was wondering if I don’t have a loaf pan, could I use a bundt pan instead? If so, what would the time and temperature differences be?
Oh gosh, I can’t even remember! I think you might want to reduce the cooking time?
yay so glad you have a good recipe for banana bread! been craving some just recently!
have you ever tried eating a slice topped with pb on it?