Chocolate Chip Banana Bread made with Greek Yogurt

When you have bananas going bad one of the best things to do is make banana bread right? I used to love Starbucks Chocolate Chip Banana bread and though I still haven't mastered my chocolate chips not all melting in the bottom this recipe is one of my favorites I found on Pintrest that was from All Recipes and I've adapted a bit. Little by little I've been changing out ingredients to make it much healthier. I was planning on swapping the sugar for stevia this time but I just didn't have enough and wanted to get this sugar out of the house anyways so I just used what I had on hand. If you choose to swap make sure to look at a conversion chart because you won't need the same amount and it will depend on if you use regular stevia or the baking blend. Since the recipe uses Greek Yogurt in still trying to figure out what's right to replace the butter, and replacing the white flour with wheat flour really makes no difference at all. 

 What I love about this recipe is all I had to buy was chocolate chips,  everything else I had in the house and are things I usually do. 

This is quick and easy to put together, the longest part is waiting for it to bake for nearly an hour and then cool when your house is smelling of yummy goodness! 

 Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

Makes one loaf 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter (equivalent to 1 stick of butter), melted
• 3/4 cup white sugar or stevia check conversion chart depending on what you use 
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour ( I use wheat flour) 
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
• 2 over-ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

 

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, stir the melted butter and sugar together.
3. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix well.  Set the wet ingredients aside.
4. In a separate large bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together.
5. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined.
6. Add in the yogurt and the mashed bananas and mix until just combined.
7. Gently stir in the chocolate chips.
8. Spread evenly into a greased 9 x 5 loaf pan.
9. Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick or fork comes out clean.   It may be done if all you have is chocolate on your fork 
10. Cool the loaf in the pan for at least 15 minutes (it's hard trust me!) before cutting into it. 

 

Now it's time to enjoy and try not to eat the entire loaf at once!