Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chocolate chip banana bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chocolate chip banana bread using 22 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread:
- Make ready Banana purée
- Take 2 Banana
- Prepare 1 tbsp Grand Marnier
- Get 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- Prepare 200 grams Cake flour
- Prepare 50 grams Granulated sugar
- Get 80 grams Brown sugar
- Make ready 2 Egg yolks
- Get 120 grams Unsalted butter (bring to room temperature for 30 minutes)
- Make ready 2 tbsp Sour cream
- Take 3 tbsp Cream cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup Chocholate chips
- Get 1 Cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1 dash Vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp Baking powder
- Make ready 1/3 tsp Salt
- Make ready Meringue
- Make ready 2 Egg whites
- Make ready 15 grams Granulated sugar
- Prepare 18 cm diameter cake mold
- Make ready 1 Melted butter
- Get 1 for dusting the pan Bread flour
Instructions to make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread:
- Brush melted butter on the mold, and dust with bread flour.
- Sift cake flour, baking powder, and salt in the same bowl.
- Roughly chop the bananas into pieces, and preheat the oven for 180℃ (350℉).
- Mash the bananas with a fork. Add Grand Marnier and lemon juice, then lightly mix to make purée.
- Add unsalted butter, cream cheese, granulated sugar, and brown sugar, then cream together.
- Beat egg yolks, then add little by little while mixing.
- Add sour cream.
- Add the Step 3 banana purée, and mix.
- Add chocolate chips, cinnamon powder, and vanilla extract.
- Make meringue with egg whites and 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar.
- Add the sifted ingredients (cake flour, baking powder, and salt) from Step 2 to the ingredients in Step 9 into 3 batches, and mix with a cutting motion.
- Then add the meringue from Step 10 into 3 batches, and mix with a cutting motion as well.
- Pour the batter into the mold. Smooth and level with a spatula.
- Bake on the middle rack in the oven at 180℃ (350℉) for 40 ~ 50 minutes.
- Insert a skewer, and if it comes out clean, it's done.
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