{"id":20392,"date":"2016-02-22T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20392"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:20:18","slug":"chocolate-banana-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/chocolate-banana-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Banana Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Food-Header-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20393\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/chocolate-banana-bread\/chocbanana\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocBanana.jpg?fit=640%2C517&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,517\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ChocBanana\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocBanana.jpg?fit=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocBanana.jpg?fit=640%2C517&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20393\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocBanana.jpg?resize=640%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ChocBanana\" width=\"640\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocBanana.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocBanana.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love that you can take the ugliest brown spotted, mushy bananas that no one wants to eat, and recycle them into a delicious <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/banana-walnut-muffins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bread<\/a>. Adding cocoa powder, and mini chocolate chips to the mix results in a magnificent loaf that you won&#8217;t be able to stop at just one piece, or two. Yeah, it&#8217;s that good!\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 large overripe bananas<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup butter, melted<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup light brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 large egg<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>1 cup flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup cocoa powder<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 cup mini chocolate chips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 350\u00ba. Grease a 9&#8243; x 5&#8243; loaf pan, set aside.<\/li>\n<li>In a large bowl, mash the bananas and whisk in the melted butter.\u00a0Add the brown sugar, egg, and vanilla.<\/li>\n<li>In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 55 to 65 minutes, test with a toothpick. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out on a wire rack.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Recipe from Smitten Kitchen.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that you can take the ugliest brown spotted, mushy bananas that no one wants to eat, and recycle them into a delicious bread. Adding cocoa powder, and mini chocolate chips to the mix results in a magnificent loaf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/chocolate-banana-bread\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1238],"tags":[3380,1179,2804],"class_list":["post-20392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovin-from-the-oven","tag-banana-bread","tag-chocolate","tag-what-to-have-for-breakfast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37102,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/marbled-banana-bread-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":20392,"position":0},"title":"Marbled Banana Bread","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"January 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"What else is there to do on a freezing cold Sunday but laundry and baking a bread that uses up the overripe bananas in the fruit bowl? 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