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Chocolate Coconut Banana Bread

August 24, 2012 By Jittery Cook 7 Comments

You know I’m not a dessert person. But, when my freezer gets cluttered up with brown, brown frozen bananas I gotta do something. I defrost the bananas on the countertop for a few hours, peel the soggy fruit, and make a favorite recipe. For years, I tried hard to emulate the Queen Elizabeth Hotel‘s version–dark, dark brown with burnt sugar flavour. Norene Gilletz‘s recipe in The Pleasures of Your Food Processor is a stellar version. Recently, I got hooked on my yoga friend Marie-Catherine‘s ultra-healthy banana bread. But now, I’m on a mission.

Here’s my mission:  Just how many Cocovie coconut products can you squeeze into 1 recipe? Hmmm, let’s see. Coconut oil, coconut flour and coconut sugar. If you want to get fancy, you can spread a layer of coconut jam on your slice of Chocolate Coconut Banana Bread.

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Chocolate Coconut Banana Bread 

  • 5 bananas (2 1/4 cups), mashed
  • 1/4 c coconut oil, melted
  • 1/4 c milk (or, if you are vegan, your favorite milk substitute)
  • 1/2 c coconut sugar (or your favorite sweetener)
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 1 1/3 c whole wheat flour
  • 2/3 c coconut flour
  • 1/2 c unsweetened cocoa or cacao powder
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1/2 t sea salt
  • 1/3 c chocolate chips
  • 1/3 c walnuts

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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare a loaf pan by coating lightly with  coconut oil and set aside.

Mash the bananas, and mix with the liquified coconut oil, milk, sugar and vanilla. In a medium-sized bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix just until combined. Apparently, over-mixing can ruin the texture. Stir in the chocolate chips and the nuts, then pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.

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Bake for 55 minutes or until a pointed knife comes out clean.

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Final notes:

  • Check out the inspiration for this version of banana bread: Vegan Double Chocolate Banana Bread by fooddoodles.com.
  • Coco-notes from Anne of Cocovie: Coconut flour is gluten-free, so it so needs a lot of oil and eggs in a recipe if you want it to bind. As a guideline, if you are COMPLETELY replacing any flour with coconut flour, the measurement is 1 cup regular flour = 1/3 cup coconut flour (in being gluten-free it absorbs a lot of the liquid). If mixing with regular flour it is okay to replace one to one ratio. If you have questions about this, ask away in the comment section. Anne will enlighten us all.
  • Try to make sure you have company coming when you make this Chocolate Coconut Banana Bread or else you’ll run the risk of eating a bit too much of it by your lonesome.
  • Need a quick, cheap mini-facelift? Check this out.
  • Thanks to Kacey Rose Bains, of Epicentre Training, for procuring these Cocovie coconut products for Jittery Cook experimentation. It is fun to embrace new foods.
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  • Chocolate Chip Banana Bread or Muffins (gluten-free and vegan) (simplyhealthful.me)
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Comments

  1. LEVY LORRAINE says

    August 24, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    I’m off chocolate…..I overdosed last week.

    Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      August 25, 2012 at 11:11 pm

      Oh well. There’s always next week!

      Reply
  2. Anonymous says

    August 25, 2012 at 4:06 am

    Looks like a good way to use coconut oil; I tried it when scrambling an egg — and it tasted like suntan lotion …

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      August 25, 2012 at 4:08 am

      Oops. Forgot to sign in. It’s Susan Schwartz commenting on the post: I’m the one who thinks coconut oil with savory foods tastes odd!,

      Reply
      • Jittery Cook says

        August 25, 2012 at 8:43 am

        Thanks for 2 comments! I love comments!!

        Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      August 25, 2012 at 8:42 am

      Absolutely true that coconut oil needs to be paired carefully with foods that are complimented by its tropical scent.

      Reply

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