Chocolate Banana Bread

Finally, one of my bookmarked recipe sees the limelight. I had jotted this recipe from Swapna's Cuisine few months back, but had completely forgot about it. Few days back, I had a few over-ripened bananas (a usual thing in my home) and when I was wondering as to what to do with those, I remembered about this recipe. When I checked out the ingredients in the recipe, I found I had everything, and viola the Chocolate Banana Bread got baked.....

Ingredients:

Recipe Source: Swapna's Cuisine

All purpose flour - 230 gm

Cocoa powder - 30 gm

Granulated white sugar - 200 gm

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Chocolate chips - 1 cup

Egg - 1

Yoghurt - 2 tbsp

Unsalted butter - 1/4 cup

Bananas - 3 ripe

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 C. Butter and flour the bottom and sides of a loaf tin.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a medium bowl, combine the mashed bananas, egg, yoghurt, melted butter and vanilla.
With a spatula, lightly fold the banana mixture into the dry ingredients in the large bowl until just combined and batter is thick and crunchy,
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top of the batter with brown sugar, which is purely optional.
Bake for 55-60 mins, until the bread had risen and baked properly or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Place it on a wire rack to cool and remove from the tin.

Well, I seriously don't understand why this is called a bread when it has the texture and taste of a cake!!! *smiles*

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