February 23 was National Banana Bread Day, yes, such a food holiday exists. Not that I knew that when I made this delicious banana bread (Germany has no food holidays – or any other obscure “Groom your pet” days or “Umbrella months”, we are rather uninventive when it comes to things like that).
Anyway, later I learned that it was Banana Bread Day and what better opportunity to share this recipe which I found in the free magazine Schrot & Korn at an organic food store called Basic?!
Banana Bread
Ingredients:
- 120g raw cane sugar
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
- 2 eggs
- 100g yoghurt
- 75ml oil
- 4 very ripe, peeled bananas (about 380g)
- 100g roughly chopped dark chocolate
- 100g roughly chopped whole milk chocolate
- 100g roughly chopped walnuts
- 100g ground hazelnuts
- 200g flour
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 pinch of salt
Mix sugar, vanilla sugar, eggs and yoghurt thoroughly. Add oil while stirring. Mash bananas with a fork and mix in well.
In a seperate bowl mix flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add chocolate, walnuts and hazelnuts. Stir flour mix into sugar mix, but not too wildly.
Line a cake tin with baking paper and fill in the dough, even it out.
Bake in the middle of the oven at 180°C for 60 minutes, Let cool for ten minutes before taking out of the tin. Eat warm and enjoy!
My variations:
I tried this with various chocolates and nuts and found you can vary the ingredients quite a bit. I used white chocolate instead of dark and liked it even better. I used chopped almonds instead of walnuts or hazelnuts and am planning to use Brazil nuts next time. So, basically you can use whatever chocolate and nuts you have at hand. It will always turn out great.
Make sure you chop the chocolate really only very roughly. That way you will have chunks of chocolate inside instead of tiny little flakes.
I never even used an electrix mixer but just a cooking spoon to mix ingredients. Worked fine!
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With all that chocolate and nuts how could this possibly go wrong? I didn’t know there was such a thing as National Banana Bread day, but I’ll try not to miss it next year.
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Looks yummy!
I never tried something like “Banana bread”, but I wanna try that recipe
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Delicious way to celebrate! Bananas, chocolate and nuts, perfection! I didn’t know about National Banana Day, I’d love to have celebrated.
That looks terrific! I always want to make banana bread, but no matter how many bananas I buy I never end up with very ripe ones.
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Mmm it looks great! Although I’m not sure I’d eat a cake with fruit chunks (I know, I’m like a kid) i have a soft spot for carrot cake: you get the veggie without realizing it. Do you like it?
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I absolutely LOVE carrot cake, especially with a cream cheese frosting!
With this one the bananas totally disappear in the rest of the ingredients, Because they are ripe and mashy, you don’t get any chunks of them.
not sure about the chocolate..but I would give it a try!
ZOMG!! Chocolate and Hazelnuts and Cinnamon and Walnuts? Sounds so so so yummy. I love banana bread and usually seem to have overripe bananas to use, but hub doesn’t like anything crunchy in this bread. Maybe I can sneak in some chocolate, though! Thanks for sharing.
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I have always wondered about banana bread.. yet I still haven’t made it. One day…
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I enjoy making and eating banana bread and have a good recipe. What appeals to me about your recipe is the addition of cinnamon and the two different kinds of nuts. I usually add pecans but now I’m going to give walnuts and hazelnuts a try. Sounds delicious.
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I will be right over! I am drooling!
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Banana bread is a favorite around here, but chocolate and hazelnuts make this recipe extra special!
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Why didn’t anyone TELL me it was national banana bread day!?!?! LOL! That looks great…and chocolate is a good addition to almost anything
I didn’t know about banana bread day but saw another recipe for this. Which I didn’t bookmark, but I won’t maje that mistake again. I’ll bookmark this and let you know what I think!
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I’m drooling!!! That looks fantastic, Rikki..
I usually put walnuts in my banana bread, but I’m really liking the idea of hazelnuts instead. I even have some on hand.. but we eat so many bananas, I almost never have 3-4 really ripe ones! I should hide them until they’re ripe… lol!
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Your bread looks yummy. Now I really want a slice, please, I’m sure you could transport it here via the web, somehow.
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Banana bread with chocolate. That sounds so good, I’m don’t know why I never thought of it!
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I’m making banana bread today, and I’m thinking now I might use your recipe. Thanks for sharing, it looks wonderful.
I love banana bread. I did have some bananas that I was saving to make banana cake/bread but they went too brown. I need to buy some more I think! This looks delicious
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that looks so tasty mmm
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