The Best Banana Nut Bread
This quick and easy one bowl method produces one of the best loaves of banana bread you will ever bake up.
Equipment
- 9x5" loaf pan
Ingredients
- 3 very ripe bananas, peeled
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
- 1½ cups flour
- 1 cup pecans, roughly chopped
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Generously grease and flour loaf pan and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, mash bananas.
- Add the melted butter, beaten egg, and sugar. Stir to combine.
- Add baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Stir to combine.
- Add flour to the bowl and stir to combine.
- Stir in pecans (reserving about a ¼ cup for topping).
- Add chocolate chips, and stir to combine.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
- Top with reserved chopped pecans.
- Bake loaf for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and cool in the loaf pan for 15 minutes.
- Remove loaf from pan and allow it to cool completely on a wire rack.