S'mores Chocolate Banana Bread
This incredible recipe from Rachel Dunston takes banana bread to the next level adding rich dark cocoa powder to the batter and topping it with chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ cups mashed bananas about 3
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup prune puree
- 1/2 cup chopped pitted prunes
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup graham cracker cereal
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180C). Spray a loaf pan with a flour based baking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and powder. Whisk in salt.
- Prepare prune puree.
- Mash bananas.
- In a standing mixer whip together mashed bananas, brown sugar, white sugar and prune puree. Add in vanilla.
- Slowly add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in the standing mixer until just combined. Don’t over mix.
- Add in chopped prunes, chocolate chips, cereal or crushed graham cracker and marshmallows until just incorporated.
- Bake for 1 hour. Cover with foil and bake an additional 10 min if necessary or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Let cool on a rack.
- Top with extra marshmallows, chocolate candy bar pieces and graham cracker cereal or crumbs. Toast for briefly in the over or with a torch and enjoy.
Notes
Rachel used milk chocolate chips, but feel free to switch things up and try it with dark or even white chocolate!
Nutrition
Calories: 485kcalCarbohydrates: 99gProtein: 7gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.004gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 368mgPotassium: 536mgFiber: 6gSugar: 59gVitamin A: 256IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 94mgIron: 3mg