Easy Next Level Chocolate Orange Banana Bread!

Chocolate Orange Banana Bread: The BEST Banana Bread Recipe by Paul Hollywood

You will be amazed and delighted to make this super simple recipe for a delicious and easy to bake banana bread with orange and chocolate chips.

Ingredients:

4 ripe bananas
1 ¼ cups (250g) super fine (or caster) sugar
1 stick + 1tbsp (125g) unsalted butter – softened
Zest of an orange

2 large eggs
2 cups (250g) plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ cup (75g) dark chocolate chunks

Heat the oven to 350f/180c/160cFan/Gas 4.
Grease and line a 2lb/900g loaf tin with parchment paper.
Roughly chop 3 bananas and add to the sugar, butter, and orange zest in a large mixing bowl.

Whisk using an electric hand mixer until combined.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.

Add the flour, baking powder over the banana mixture and gently fold in until combined. Fold in the chocolate chunks.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the surface to level. Cut the remaining banana in half lengthways and gently press onto the surface of the mixture.

Bake for 50-60 minutes until risen and golden brown and a skewer comes out clean when inserted.

Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.


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