This Chocolate Oat Flour Banana Bread is moist, chocolatey and loaded with chocolate chips. If you happen to love chocolate and banana bread, you’ll take pleasure in this gluten-free banana bread!
Chocolate Oat Flour Banana Bread
I’m excited to share this Chocolate Banana Bread with oat flour. I’ve been testing the recipe for a number of weeks, and it’s lastly excellent. My daughter Madison beloved it! The oat flour provides it a moist consistency, just like baked oatmeal, and provides extra vitamins than wheat flour. Plus, it’s naturally gluten-free. If you need one thing extra conventional, attempt my different banana bread recipes like my Banana Nut Bread, Blueberry Banana Bread, and Gluten-Free Banana Nut Bread.
Why You’ll Love This Oat Flour Banana Bread Recipe
- Excellent Solution to Use Overripe Bananas: Have bananas going dangerous in your counter? This oat flour banana bread recipe is an effective way to make use of them.
- Simple: Fast breads are so easy to whip up. Simply combine the dry and moist substances collectively, and pop within the oven. You’ll have freshly baked bread in lower than an hour.
- Gluten-Free: Swapping all-purpose or wheat flour with gluten-free oat flour makes this wholesome chocolate banana bread gluten-free.
- Versatile: Eat it for a quick breakfast because it’s full of fruit and oats or as a dessert if you happen to’re craving chocolate.
Banana Bread Substances
- Oat Flour: I used oat flour for additional protein and fiber and to maintain the banana bread gluten-free. Test labels to make sure your oat flour is gluten-free.
- Cocoa Powder: Combine in half a cup of cocoa powder for the very best chocolate banana bread.
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda trigger the bread to rise and make it extra tender.
- Salt balances the sweets and improves the flavour and texture.
- Bananas: Mash three medium bananas with a fork to get 1 ½ cups of mashed bananas. You need additional ripe bananas lined in black spots for the sweetest banana bread.
- Eggs: You’ll want two massive eggs.
- Maple Syrup provides sweetness.
- Vanilla Extract for heat and complexity
- Chocolate Chips: This bread is technically a “double” chocolate banana bread since I used cocoa powder and chocolate chips. I like Lily’s semisweet chocolate chips, which don’t add any sugar.
The way to Make Chocolate Banana Bread
- Dry Substances: Whisk all 5 dry substances in a medium bowl.
- Moist Substances: Mash the bananas after which add the eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla.
- Stir the dry substances into the banana combination till mixed, cautious to not overmix. Then stir in a half cup of chocolate chips.
- Bake: Pour the batter right into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper, and prime with the remaining chocolate chips. Bake at 350°F for 45 to 55 minutes till a toothpick inserted comes out clear, and let the pan cool for quarter-hour earlier than slicing.
Variations
- Sweetener: Substitute honey for maple syrup.
- Need much less chocolate? Omit the chocolate chips.
- Chocolate Banana Muffins: Pour the batter right into a greased muffin tin and bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 350°F. Test the middle of a muffin with a toothpick to make sure it’s prepared.
- Double the recipe if you wish to present a loaf or freeze one for later.
Storage
Let the bread cool, and retailer it on the counter for a day after which within the fridge for as much as every week. If you wish to freeze it, you may freeze the complete loaf or slices for as much as three months. Wrap the slices individually in plastic wrap or foil to simply pull one out as wanted. To serve, thaw it within the fridge or microwave the frozen slice till heat.
Oat Flour FAQ
When you’ve got a gluten sensitivity, oat flour is an effective different because it’s naturally gluten-free.
Oat flour has extra protein and fiber than all-purpose flour. One slice of this bread has 5.5 grams of protein and 9.5 grams of fiber.
Oat flour is made from ground-up oats, so it nonetheless incorporates the identical good vitamin as rolled oats. Oats are a superb supply of manganese, copper, and B nutritional vitamins.
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Yield: 8 servings
Serving Measurement: 1 slice
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Preheat the oven to 350F and grease a 9×4 loaf pan. You possibly can place a chunk of parchment paper about 9 x 9 inches contained in the pan so it’s simple to take away.
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In a medium bowl, combine the dry substances; oat flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
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In a big bowl, mash the bananas till effectively blended and liquidy, then add the eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla.
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Add the dry substances to the moist and stir till mixed. Stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
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Pour into the ready loaf pan, prime with the remaining chocolate chips and bake for 45 to 55 minutes or till toothpick inserted comes out clear.
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Take away from the loaf pan and let it cool quarter-hour earlier than reducing.
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Serving: 1 slice, Energy: 190 kcal, Carbohydrates: 34.5 g, Protein: 5.5 g, Fats: 7 g, Saturated Fats: 3.5 g, Ldl cholesterol: 34.5 mg, Sodium: 179.5 mg, Fiber: 9.5 g, Sugar: 11.5 g
