RecipesBaking And Sweets

Banana, dark chocolate & hazelnut bread recipe

A moist and very moreish banana bread with chocolate and hazelnuts

Banana, dark chocolate & hazelnut bread recipe
Print & share:
Print:

Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3 ripe bananas, mashed
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 125g butter, melted
  • 1 tsp Steenbergs organic fairtrade vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp organic ground cinnamon
  • 200g plain flour
  • 100g ground almonds
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 75g dark chocolate chunks
  • 75g hazelnuts, chopped (toasted in a hot oven for 5 minutes, then rubbed to remove the brown outer skin)

This recipe is for a moist and very moreish banana bread with chocolate and hazelnuts

Method

01
Preheat your oven to 180C (160 fan). Grease and line a 1kg loaf tin.
02
Mix the bananas, eggs, sugar, melted butter and vanilla extract together in a large bowl.
03
In a separate bowl mix together the dry ingredients (without the hazelnuts and chocolate), before adding it to the banana mixture and stirring to combine thoroughly.
04
Finally add in the hazelnuts and chocolate and mix together.
05
Pour into the prepared loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes, until a cake skewer comes out clean.
06
Leave to cool briefly in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack.