This is a riff on a super popular and delicious recipe from the site: Cathy's Banana Bread. This version incorporates other reviewers' suggestions to use a mix of white and brown sugar and to use butter instead of margarine. It also includes a little coconut and cinnamon. The coconut toasts nicely on top, adds great texture, and smells and tastes amazing with the banana and the chocolate.
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 0.33 cups packed brown sugar
- 0.25 cups unsalted butter , softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup mashed ripe banana
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.25 teaspoons salt
- 0.5 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 0.5 cups unsweetened flaked coconut
- 0.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
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Cream white sugar, brown sugar, and butter together in a large bowl until smooth. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in banana, sour cream, and vanilla.
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Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in another bowl; gently stir into wet mixture just until combined.
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Toss together chocolate chips, coconut, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Fold about 2/3 of the mixture into the batter, then pour batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chip mixture.
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Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely before slicing.
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