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Prep time
20 minutes
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Cook time
1 hour 10 minutes
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makes
1 loaf
Author Notes
This is the kind of sweet that is ideal to have around for nabbing a piece of here and there. I like to lop off slices in varying degrees of thickness throughout the many lulls of the day. Be it for a snack, a mood boost, out of sheer boredom, or for the need to procrastinate. Or whenever I hear it calling to me from the kitchen.
Heads Up: This is not an overly sweet version of banana bread, especially owing to the unsweetened chocolate I used, but feel free to use whatever kind of chocolate floats your boat in here, or even a mix of chocolates like milk, semi-sweet, and dark. —cookyourfeelings
Ingredients
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4
black bananas, peeled
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2
large eggs
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4 ounces
almond oil (or substitute vegetable)
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1/2 cup
kefir
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1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
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2 cups
(heaping) whole wheat pastry flour
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1/2 cup
granulated sugar
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1/4 cup
dark brown sugar
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3/4 teaspoon
baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon
fine grain sea salt
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1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
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1/8 teaspoon
ground ginger
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1/8 teaspoon
ground cloves
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1 cup
walnuts, coarsely chopped
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4 ounces
dark chocolate (unsweetened), coarsely chopped
Directions
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Grease a 9”x5” loaf pan and line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350°F with a rack positioned in the middle of the oven.
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Place the bananas in a medium-sized mixing bowl and mash with a fork. Add the eggs, oil, kefir, and vanilla to the mashed bananas and mix to combine all the wet ingredients.
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Add the dry ingredients, from flour through cloves, to the wet ingredients and stir to combine. Fold the walnuts and chocolate into the batter.
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Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Set the loaf pan on a sheet tray and place in the oven to bake. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
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Let cool in the pan for at least ten minutes, or until cool and set enough to comfortably handle. Carefully remove the loaf to a wire rack, using the parchment paper to help hoist the loaf out of the pan, and allow it to cool at least ten minutes further before slicing.
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