Chocolate Chip & Walnut Banana Bread.

You can have Chocolate Chip & Walnut Banana Bread using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Chip & Walnut Banana Bread

1. You need 4 of over ripe bananas.
2. It’s 75 g of butter (room temp).
3. It’s 100 g of caster sugar.
4. It’s 1 of large egg.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. It’s 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
7. You need 1 pinch of salt.
8. It’s 185 g of plain flour.
9. You need 85 g of dark chocolate chips.
10. You need 75 g of walnut pieces.

Chocolate Chip & Walnut Banana Bread step by step

1. Preheat your oven to 180C fan. Grease and line a loaf pan with baking parchment..
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar with an electric beater for around 5 minutes until pale and fluffy..
3. Beat in the egg for around 5 minutes, then add in the vanilla extract. Don't worry if the mixture looks curdled..
4. In a separate bowl, mash 3 of the bananas until almost smooth, leaving a few chunks for texture..
5. Gently fold in the mashed banana to the egg mixture, followed by the flour, bicarb, salt, walnut pieces and chocolate chips until just combined. Be careful not to over mix..
6. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin. Slice the remaining 4th banana in half down the middle and place each half lengthways on top of the batter, pushing them down slightly..
7. Bake for around 50 minutes in the middle of the oven, or until a skewer comes out just clean..
8. Allow to cool completely before cutting. It is important to do this as the texture can be affected if cut too soon..