Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is a chocolate banana bread with chocolate chips mixed in. It’s so delicious and a great way to use ripe bananas!
Originally published August 6, 2014. Updated August 19, 2025.
If you have a few ripe bananas on your counter and some chocolate chips in your pantry, you have to make this chocolate chip banana bread!
It’s a classic banana bread but with cocoa powder to make the whole bread chocolate and then it also has chocolate chips throughout and they get all melty and become little pockets of gooey chocolate in the bread.
It’s really easy to make and doesn’t call for any crazy ingredients. And it’s also really delicious!
Ingredients
- Butter – make sure to bring it to room temperature before beginning the recipe.
- Brown sugar – using brown sugar instead of granulated sugar adds extra moisture and helps keep the banana bread from drying out.
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Bananas – make sure they are very ripe.
- All-purpose flour
- Cocoa powder – the cocoa powder is going to be what turns the entire banana bread chocolate.
- Baking soda – this is the leavening agent for the banana bread which means it’s going to help is rise and be nice and fluffy.
- Salt – just a tiny bit to bring out all the other flavors.
- Chocolate chips – the recipe calls for semisweet chocolate chips but you can use a different variety if you prefer.
How To Make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Wet ingredients. Use an electric mixer to cream together softened butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add bananas and beat until bananas are incorporated.
- Dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Combine. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and beat until combined.
- Add chocolate. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Transfer. Transfer to a prepared 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Bake. Bake at 350F for 60 – 65 minutes.
- Cool. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
How Long Is It Good For?
Chocolate chip banana bread will be good for up to 4 – 5 days. Store it in an airtight container at room temperature.
You can probably get an extra day or 2 out of it if you store it in the fridge but it will dry out quicker that way.
Can You Freeze It?
You can freeze the entire loaf of chocolate chip banana bread or slice it and freeze in individual servings. Either way, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and then place in an airtight container, like a freezer ziploc bag.
When you are ready to serve it, let it sit at room temperature until defrosted. The individual slices will defrost a lot quicker than the whole loaf.
More Banana Bread Recipes
- Pumpkin Banana Bread
- Sour Cream Banana Bread
- Banana Nut Bread
- Cream Cheese Banana Bread
- S’mores Banana Bread
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 very ripe bananas
- 2 cups flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with baking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and vanilla.
- Add bananas and continue beating until the banana is incorporated.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until combined.
- Use a rubber spatula to fold in chocolate chips.
- Transfer batter to the prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 60 - 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes in the pan before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 239Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 32mgSodium: 170mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 3gSugar: 23gProtein: 4g
Irene says
Great recipe for a lovely loaf cake, looks so good can,t wait to try it, Thank you.
Irene says
Love the look of this banana loaf so lv’e just made it, looked brill going in the oven so let you know how it comes out, thank you for the recipe.
Anita says
Hello Amanda!
Love the combination of chocolate and banana together. Your Chocolate Chip Banana Bread look nice and moist which I prefer.
Chelsea+@chelseasmessyapron says
So I just made banana bread with chocolate chips in it, but one look at this and I realize I had it all wrong – the whole thing needed to be chocolate! That looks so good and fudgy! Next time – this banana bread it is!
Stephanie @ Macaroni and Cheesecake says
LOVE LOVE LOVE that you added chocolate!! Looks delicious!
Averie @ Averie Cooks says
I loveeeee banana bread! It’s my favorite thing – seriously, I have like 40 recipes for it on my site because I can never make the same thing twice. But very few recipes for chocolate banana bread. Wow, this looks delish! Pinned!