Whole-Wheat Chocolate Banana Bread

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When you can’t decide between the nourishing goodness of whole-wheat banana bread and the sweet decadence of chocolate banana bread, you don’t have to. You can have both! Try our healthy chocolate banana bread for breakfast, snack, or an after-dinner treat! It is moist, delicious, sweet and 100% whole grain!

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Whole-Wheat Chocolate Banana Bread

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1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

1

Preheat the oven. Coat a large glass loaf pan with cooking spray, or line it with parchment.

2

Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium sized bowl.

3

Whisk the banana, eggs, oil, maple syrup, and vanilla together in a large bowl.

4

Stir the flour mixture into the wet mixture with a silicone spatula. Stir.

5

Add in the chocolate chips and stir them to combine.

6

Scrape the banana bread batter into the prepared pan and top with the reserved chips, if desired.

7

Bake until the loaf is domed, set up when lightly touched, and a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out with moist crumbs attached.

8

Allow the banana bread to cool in the pan. Turn it out to cool on a wire rack

Enjoy!

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