Chocolate Kokosnoot Banana Bread

I couldn’t create upwards one's take away heed if this should move filed nether “cake” or “bread” inwards the recipe index.  What practise you lot think?  I’m non certain why they telephone phone it banana “bread” because it’s sweetness similar cake.  Loaf bread, loaf cake, chocolate cake, banana breadstuff – this care for has a … banana split upwards personality!   Whether or non I figure this out – I tin tell you lot all close the sense of savor of this moist, chocolatey, banana breadstuff amongst overnice kokosnoot overtones.

 

I was looking for some other agency to exam kokosnoot crude specifically in a baked dessert.  I combined butter together with kokosnoot crude along amongst brownish together with granulated saccharide – the terminate termination was deliciously moist together with rich without beingness overly sweet.  The banana flavour was non lost inwards this recipe and was nicely complimented amongst the shredded coconut.

 

This recipe makes 2 loaves.  My favorite grouping of taste-testers reviewed a obviously cake together with 1 that was iced amongst a kokosnoot glaze.  The glazed loaf disappeared a piddling quicker, but both were gone inwards a flash.

 

Iced or plain?

With or without toasted coconut?  I tell “with” please!

 

Did I yell the chocolate chips?  You tin never become incorrect amongst chocolate chips inwards chocolate cake.  Just maxim …

 

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Chocolate Coconut Banana Bread

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr 15 mins

 

A deliciously moist chocolate loaf cake amongst hints of banana together with coconut.

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 2 loaves

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  3
  large ripe bananas
  mashed
  


• 
  2
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  2/3
  cup
  unsweetened natural cocoa
  (not Dutch processed)
  


• 
  2
  teaspoons
  baking soda
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  light brownish sugar,
  packed
  


• 
  2
  large eggs
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  espresso powder
  


• 
  8
  ounces
  (1 cup) sour cream
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  pure vanilla extract
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  unsalted butter,
  melted together with cooled slightly
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  coconut oil,
  slightly melted
  


• 
  1
  cup
  bittersweet chocolate chips, coarsely chopped
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  shredded coconut
  

For the kokosnoot glaze:

• 
  1
  tablespoon
  melted kokosnoot oil
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  coconut extract
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  pure vanilla extract
  


• 
  Toasted kokosnoot for garnish if desired
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 325 degrees (for nighttime or drinking glass pans - preheat to 350 for all other loaf pans)
   
   


2. 
   
   Spray 2 8.5 x 4.5 loaf pans amongst non-stick cooking spray.
   
   


3. 
   
   Mash bananas amongst a fork together with laid aside.
   
   


4. 
   
   Whisk together the flour, cocoa, soda together with tabular array salt inwards a bowl, laid aside.
   
   


5. 
   
   Dissolve the espresso inwards the vanilla together with laid aside.
   
   


6. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl, crunch the granulated sugar, brownish saccharide together with eggs until creamy together with light.
   
   


7. 
   
   Add the expresso together with vanilla, together with sour cream. Turn the mixer on depression together with gradually add together the combined melted butter together with kokosnoot oil. Once all the butter is added, plough the mixer speed to medium together with blend until all ingredients are incorporated.
   
   


8. 
   
   Using a spatula, add together the bananas to the saccharide mixture together with flexure until blended. Add the flour inwards 2 batches blending amongst the spatula until shine afterwards each addition.
   
   


9. 
   
   Fold inwards the shredded kokosnoot together with chopped chocolate chips.
   
   


10. 
    
    Divide the batter into the 2 prepared loaf pans together with bake directly for 45-50 minutes. Check the loaves afterwards 45 minutes using a toothpick inserted inwards the center. If the toothpick comes out clean, the breadstuff is done. Do non over bake!
    
    


11. 
    
    Cool the breadstuff inwards the pans until no longer hot (about thirty minutes). Remove the loaves from the pans together with allow the breadstuff to cool completely on a wire rack. Drizzle amongst a kokosnoot glaze together with sprinkle amongst toasted, unsweetened kokosnoot simply earlier serving.
    
    


12. 
    
    For the Glaze:
    
    


13. 
    
    Combine all the ingredients for the glaze together with whisk until smooth. Drizzle over 1 loaf cake. Double the glaze recipe if you lot prefer to H2O ice both cakes.
    
    

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Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com