I absolutely adore banana bread, and ever since posting my recipe for a straight up delicious vegan banana bread, I have been wanting to try it with chocolate chips!
And this vegan chocolate chip banana bread tastes as good as it sounds. And as good as it looks!
Banana bread is the best thing to make when you have some very ripe bananas on hand. Some people call this (pictured above), overripe. But it’s not really, it’s just very ripe.
It’s the stage where they’re not very appealing to eat straight up, but they’re still totally fine to use in baking.
Delicious spread with vegan butter!
I always like my banana bread slathered with vegan butter. But Jaye tends to enjoy it plain. He sees it more as cake, I see it more as bread.
Any way you prefer, you’re going to have some fun with this, both making it and eating it.
Chocolate chunks or chocolate chips?
If you have any difficulty with getting vegan chocolate chips (I used to not be able to find them anywhere, but now I can get them), then no worries!
Just chop up your favorite vegan chocolate into chunks and use that instead. It’s just as delicious, in fact some might say it can be more delicious that way as you can make those chunks nice and fat!
When this banana bread is served warm you get melted and gooey chocolate delights in your slice of banana bread, and served cold you bite into chunks of hard and delicious dark chocolate. Either way, it’s a treat.
How to store your vegan chocolate chip banana bread
Kept wrapped and covered this lasts a couple of days at room temperature.
But if you are a rare individual who will eat this very slowly, then it will last longer if you keep it wrapped and covered in the fridge (up to a week). You can always gently warm up a slice in the microwave.
This vegan chocolate chip banana bread is so delicious!
It is:
- Packed with chocolate chips!
- Rich
- Dreamy
- Perfectly Sweet
- Satisfying
- Shareable
- Full of banana flavor!
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 60 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 mins
- Yield: 10
Description
Vegan chocolate chip banana bread that is perfectly moist, rich, deliciously sweet and packed with banana flavor! Ideal for dessert or breakfast!
Ingredients
- 2 cups (250g) All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 cup (100g) White Sugar
- 1/2 cup (100g) Brown Sugar
- 3 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 3 Medium Ripe Bananas (10.5oz /300g peeled weight)
- 1/2 cup (120ml) Soy Milk*
- 3 Tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1 Flax Egg (1 Tbsp Ground Flaxseed Meal + 3 Tbsp Hot Water)
- 1 cup (175g) Vegan Dark Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Sift the flour and add to a mixing bowl. Add the white sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix together.
- Add the bananas to a blender jug with the soy milk and coconut oil. Blend until just blended.
- Prepare your flax egg by mixing 1 Tbsp ground flaxseed meal with 3 Tbsp Hot Water and allowing to sit for a minute until it becomes gloopy.
- Pour the blended banana mix over the dry ingredients and then add the flax egg and mix in until combined. The batter will be fairly thick.
- Add about 3/4 of the vegan dark chocolate chips and fold in. Keep roughly a 1/4 of them aside to place on top.
- Grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan and cut out parchment paper to line the bottom.
- Pour the batter into the pan and spread out evenly. Place the remaining chocolate chips on top.
- Place into the oven and bake for around 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (if you hit some melted chocolate, just try a different spot!).
Notes
*You can use almond milk instead of soy milk if you prefer.
*Adapted from my recipe for Vegan Banana Bread.
- Category: Dessert, Baking, Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Thick Slice (of 10)
- Calories: 341
- Sugar: 29.8g
- Sodium: 282mg
- Fat: 11.5g
- Saturated Fat: 7.3g
- Carbohydrates: 56.1g
- Fiber: 3.2g
- Protein: 4.5g
Keywords: vegan chocolate chip banana bread
I think I want to make this, but I want to use peanut butter in it. What would I need to change to make this into a loaf of peanut butter chocolate banana bread?
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Hi Tracy, I’m not sure. It would alter the balance of ingredients to just add in peanut butter. This recipe from Connoisseurus Veg looks good though!
Another great recipe! I made this without the chocolate chips and loved it! 😋 After trying two other recipes of yours, I shouldn’t be surprised 😅☺️
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Thanks Kelia! 🙂
Your recipes never disappoint. This is so much better than the non-vegan banana bread I used to make. A lot less greasy and the crumb is springy and not dense at all. I substitued the flaxseed meal for soy flour and only used 100g each of sugar and dark chocolate chunks. My batter was not as thick as expected but 70 min in the oven were enough. This recipe will be my new staple, thanks a lot!
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Awesome! So happy to hear that Karen, thanks a million!
I made this almost exactly as suggested except I used a little less sugar and chocolate chunks instead of chocolate chips. I had never used flax eggs before but it was very simple! Turned out delicious and will definitely be making this again! Thank you.
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Fantastic! Thanks Sydney!
Omg the best!!! I completely forgot to add coconut oil because I’m horrible at following recipes and it still came out perfect (I did however use about 50 extra grams of bananas though). Just thought I’d add this in case any one is an oil free vegan and wants to give it a try. Seriously – this is perfect!!
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Fantastic! Thanks so much Katie!
Darn it, I don’t have brown sugar. I have turbinado sugar. Can I just use a cup of that for my sugar?
It should be fine to use that instead! 🙂
This bread was amazing! I’ve only recently started vegan baking and I think this was just as good as or better than non vegan banana bread. I used almond milk and also added about a half cup of finely chopped pecans. Thanks for the great recipe!
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing Ellie!
Is there a substitute for the flax seed eggs? I don’t have that on hand but would love to make this!
Sure, you can use 3 Tbsp extra mashed banana. 🙂
I just made it and it is so good!! The only thing I changed is that I halved the sugars. I am (and my family haha) now obsessed with chocolate chip banana bread. 10/10
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Can I substitute an oil instead of coconut oil? I don’t have any in the cupboard!
Sure!
Made this tonight. Used spelt flour because that’s what I had. It was very good. I’m replacing my old banana bread with this one. So good!! Thanks for sharing your recipes. I love your Mac and cheese.
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Thanks Belinda!
AMAZING! I’m not vegan, but my partner is. This cake can absolutely stand proud next to all the ones that rely on eggs and butter as an absolutely delicious thing!
I used oat milk instead of soy milk, and I just cut up vegan cooking chocolate as couldn’t find chips.
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Yay! Thanks so much Nina!
Love it, make it all the time and get a ton of compliments. I use half the sugar, though. Just my preference! I bake it for 60 minutes.
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
If you have trouble finding vegan chocolate chips, Trader Joes has semi-sweet chocolate chips are vegan. They are a good price too!
For the milk, I used almond milk and still tastes great. Thanks for the great recipe!
Thanks for sharing Brigid!
I’ve made this banana bread twice in the last week – once for my sister’s birthday, and another just because! Absolutely the most delicious banana bread I’ve ever had. It seems to only need around 50 minutes in my oven, and I use Oatly oat milk rather than soy (or really whatever I have to hand!) I’d like to make the third batch with wholemeal flour and less sugar just to compare, because I occasionally like a less decadent banana bread to freeze and then toast when I want a slice with peanut/almond butter on! Thank you so much for such a brilliant recipe.
Awesome! Thanks so much Bethan! 🙂
Hands down my favorite banana bread recipe and I’m not even vegan! Thank you for this recipe!
I make it regularly now. My favorite way is with white whole wheat flour and I use almond milk instead of soy milk.
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Yay! So happy to hear that Patricia! Thanks for the wonderful review. 🙂
Delicious!!! This are the things I changed. I used Whole wheat, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup of regular sugar, 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and baked it for 60 minutes. Thank you for the recipe!!!
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Awesome, thanks for sharing Pepa! 🙂
Just made this and it’s so so good. I am hoping to make one for my dad but my bananas are in the cusp of needing to go and I won’t see him till Christmas Eve. How long do you think this would last in the fridge freezer and or Shelf? Thank you!
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Hi Dina, you can freeze this banana bread, but an alternative would be to freeze your bananas and then make the banana bread closer to the time if that’s an option. You can just peel and break up the bananas into small pieces and then freeze them in a freezer safe container. And then when you’re ready to make the banana bread just blend the frozen bananas with the soy milk and coconut oil as usual. This works just great! 🙂
Hi! Can you use oat milk instead of soy/almond milk?
It should be fine! I wouldn’t use a homemade oat milk as it tends not to heat well, but if it’s a store-bought variety that heats well then that will work great! 🙂
I just did! Came out great!
I’m not sure if my previous comment went through, so hopefully I’m not repeating myself, but can this be made gluten-free?
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No problem Alicia, the comments go through moderation first, which is why you might not have seen it right away. Definitely check out our gluten-free banana bread I think that will be the best option, and then just add chocolate chips to that recipe! 🙂