Banana Bread is my best bet when I have bananas with spots on them. Even a single brown spot and nobody is willing to eat them in my house. So, I usually let them rest for one more day and develop some more flavor and then they go into the making of Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts which is loved by all.
See, now you know the trick. I usually add some nuts for the crunch and walnuts are the preferred choice. But I got a few hazelnuts from my visit to the baking supply store and had been lying in my freezer since then. So, they went into the bread as well. It was my first time using or tasting hazelnuts on their own. They tasted more or less like peanuts with a more earthy flavor. If you don’t have hazelnuts, go ahead and use any nuts of your choice.
You can even interest yourself with yet another flavourful bread called Banana Cinnamon Pecan Bread and have a treat. Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts is indeed a toothsome, moist bake which tastes absolutely delicious with tea or coffee.
It is a delight to have during cozy winter or monsoon evenings. Whenever I bake Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts, some of its slices gets packed and goes in my kiddo’s tiffin as well for his pack of friends and those little musketeers really like eating it very much!
Now you know what to do with all those over-ripe bananas. Use them instead for making Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts and have fun! Read this interesting recipe of Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts:
Recipe to make Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts
Chocolate Banana Bread with Hazelnuts
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter - 115 g
- Granulated sugar - 1 cup
- Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp
- Eggs - 3
- Mashed banana - 1 cup approx 4 big bananas
- Milk - 1/4 cup
- Lemon juice - 2-3 drops
- All purpose flour - 2 cups
- Cocoa powder -1/4 cup
- Baking soda - 1 tsp
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp
- Hazelnuts - 1/2 cup Roasted and skin removed and chopped
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degree C.
- Grease a bread loaf pan.
- Add lemon juice in milk and keep it aside. In 3-4 minutes it will turn into buttermilk.
- Add all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and cinnamon powder in a bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
- Add vanilla extract and mix.
- Add egg one at a time and beat till nicely combined.
- Add the mashed banana and mix well.
- Add buttermilk and mix.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix just till combined.
- Do not over mix at this stage.
- Fold in the hazelnuts.
- Pour the batter in the prepared pan.
- Bake for 60-65 minutes, till a knife comes out clean.
- Remove the pan from the oven.
- Let the bread cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
- Remove the loaf from the pan and cool on a wire rack
Sona S
Beautiful clicks. The bread looks soft and with chocolate and banana, I’m sure it would have tasted absolutely delicious.
Rafeeda AR
Looks so dense…I love banana in bakes n chcocolate with it wud be awesome!
Simmy Routroy
looks super delicious
Poornima Nair
Looks divine…I only like banana bread if it has chocolate too, this is just perfect!
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