Mini Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

Moist mini banana breads with chocolate chips – perfect to take on the go, enjoy with coffee, or as a sweet snack.

Banana bread is always a great idea – especially when it's wonderfully moist and full of ripe banana flavour.

Ingredients

Makes 8 pieces / 1 tray

• 3 ripe bananas
• 80 g brown sugar
• 30 g white sugar
• 1 egg
• 60 g melted butter
• 40 g neutral oil (e.g. sunflower oil)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 180 g plain flour
• 6 g baking powder
• 2 g salt
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 1 pinch of nutmeg (optional)
• 100–120 g dark chocolate chips
• Juice of ½ lemon

Method

1. Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180 °C top/bottom heat and prepare your mini loaf moulds.

2. Mash the bananas

Mash the ripe bananas in a bowl with a fork until smooth. The riper the bananas, the sweeter and more flavourful your banana bread will be.

3. Mix the wet ingredients

Add the brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla extract and egg to the bananas and mix well. Then add the butter and oil – mix briefly.

4. Add the dry ingredients

Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and, if desired, nutmeg in a separate bowl. Then add this mixture to the banana batter and stir just until you have a smooth dough.

5. Fold in the chocolate chips

Gently fold in the chocolate chips at the end. Feel free to be generous here.

6. Baking

Fill the prepared moulds with the batter and bake the mini banana breads for approx. 25–30 minutes. They are ready when they are nicely golden and a toothpick comes out clean.

Tip

The mini banana breads can be prepared well in advance and stay moist for several days. You can also freeze them without any problem – perfect if you always want to have a little stash of sweet snacks on hand.

For a variation, you can add nuts, berries or a little extra cinnamon to the batter.

Fresh out of the oven and still slightly warm – simply irresistible.