Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup coconut oil (or can sub butter or veg oil)
  • 1¼ cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2-3 very ripe bananas, mashed
  • ¼ cup low fat buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups white wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour (can sub all-purpose)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cups mini chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan with cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large bowl beat coconut oil and sugar until crumbly. Add eggs, beating well after each addition. Stir in bananas, buttermilk and vanilla.
  3. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into creamed mixture until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
  4. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (I cover with foil after bread is lightly browned around 35 minutes). Cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack. Remove from pan and continue to cool.
Recipe by Nutritious Eats at https://www.nutritiouseats.com/chocolate-chip-banana-bread/