Easy Homemade One Bowl Chocolate Chip Banana Bread - Savvy Bites (2024)

Why You'll Love This Recipe

• It uses only 1 bowl!
• Extra moist because of the vegetable oil and Greek yoghurt
• It's the easiest banana bread on the internet!
• There's chocolate in it!
• It is hugely customisable by adding in nuts or other dried fruit.

Ingredients needed

• Bananas
• Plain flour
• Eggs
• Butter
• Caster sugar (or granulated)
• Brown sugar
• Baking soda (bicarb of soda)
• Full Fat Greek Yogurt
• Vegetable oil

Optional Ingredients- Cinnamon, walnuts, pecan, raisins, sultanas or any other dried fruit.

See the recipe card for quantities.

Step By Step Instructions

Step 1 & 2

• Add your eggs, sugars, banana, yoghurt and butter to a medium bowl.
• Sift the flour, bicarb and salt straight into the bowl over the egg mixture. This is how we avoid using more than one bowl!

Step 3 & 4

• Stir in the chocolate chunks and any of the optional extras you may want to add. Mix gently, then pour into the prepared tin.
• Split the third banana lengthwise and place it on the top of the banana loaf. Sprinkle with the extra chocolate chunks and bake for about 40 minutes. You can sprinkle some demerara sugar on just before baking for that crunchy texture.

How to keep the banana cake moist

1. Make sure that the banana bread is wrapped tightly in foil and or cling film. I know we're all trying to move away from plastic use so this beeswax wrap from Amazon may be just the ticket.
2. Place the wrapped banana bread in an airtight container.
3. Keeping the cake/bread in the fridge also helps to keep it fresh for about a week. But let's be honest... we've all eaten banana bread that's been in the fridge longer than that!
4. If you find your banana bread gets a little dry, then warm it gently in a 130ºc oven for a few minutes and spread with butter!

How do I ripen bananas so I can make this now?

There are a couple of ways you can ripen them quickly.
1. Put them in a paper bag with an apple. The enzymes from the cut apple and skin work their magic to ripen bananas. This method takes about a day.
2. Preheat to oven to 150c or 300f. Place the bananas on a baking tray in the oven for about 15-20 minutes. Once the skins are black the bananas will be ripe.

How do I stop my banana bread from sticking to the pan?

Grease your loaf pan really well with either non stick cooking spray or butter and line with non stick baking paper.

My banana bread sunk in the middle. What happened?

There could be a few reasons.
1. Your leavening agents (baking powder) may be expired. However, they do have a very long shelf life. Be sure to double check the expiry date before baking.
2. The banana bread is underbaked. This is usually the cause of cakes sinking in the middle. Often, the centre of the cake is risen, but once out of the oven it sinks.
To avoid this use a toothpick to check for doneness. There should only be a few moist crumbs that stick to the toothpick when the bread is fully baked.

Can I turn these into muffins?

Absolutely. Just line a muffin tin with paper muffin liners and add the banana batter until each muffin cup is about ⅔ full. Bake for about 20 minutes until the muffins are risen and baked all the way through.