This moist and delicious pumpkin banana bread with chocolate chips makes a wonderful breakfast or dessert. This easy to make bread is a delicious twist between a pumpkin bread and a banana bread with the amazing taste of chocolate chips.
Pumpkin Banana Bread
This crowd pleaser, tasty fall recipe is kid friendly and a great to use any leftover or extra pumpkin. Being such an easy recipe to make, try baking several loaves at once and freezing some of them for use later on.
Depending on the side of your loaf pans, this recipe will make 2 large loaves or 3 to 4 small loaves.
What you need to make this recipe
This pumpkin banana chocolate chip bread recipe uses ingredients that you probably already have at home.
- Pumpkin
- Banana
- Chocolate Chips
- Plain Flour
- Baking Soda
- Ground Cinnamon
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- White Sugar / Brown Sugar
- Eggs
Variations
- Try adding 1 ½ tsp of pumpkin pie spice to the mixture
- Add ½ cup chopped walnuts, pecans or some other kind of nuts
- Add in ½ cup raisins
- Adding more chocolate chips is always ok!
Making Pumpkin Banana Bread
Preheat the oven to 180˚C (350˚F).
Prepare two regular loaf pans or 3 to 4 mini loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray or baking paper.
Whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice (if using), salt, baking powder, sugar, and brown sugar.
In another mixing bowl, combine the oil, eggs, pumpkin puree, and banana until blended.
Add the dry ingredients and stir just until combined.
Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts, if using and mix well.
Divide the batter between the prepared baking pans.
Bake for 45 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Cool in the pans for 5 to 10 minutes before removing to continue cooling on a wire rack.
Enjoy!
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Pumpkin Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 1 cup Pumpkin Puree
- 1 cup Ripe Banana, Mashed
- 1 cup Chocolate Chips
- 3 cups Plain Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ¾ cup White Sugar
- ½ cup Brown Sugar, packed in
- ⅔ cup Oil, vegetable, canola or oil of choice
- 3 Eggs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 18˚C (350˚F).
- Prepare two regular loaf pans or 3 to 4 mini loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray or baking paper.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice (if using), salt, baking powder, sugar, and brown sugar.
- In another mixing bowl, combine the oil, eggs, pumpkin puree, and banana until blended.
- Add the dry ingredients and stir just until combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts, if using and mix well.
- Divide the batter between the prepared baking pans.
- Bake for 45 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Cool in the pans for 5 to 10 minutes before removing to continue cooling on a wire rack.
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