Cardamom Chocolate Banana Bread

Linh
Linh @barofsweets

I rarely cook with cardamom but something about it reminds me of home. Adopting Nathaniel's banana bread recipe at capturesbytk.com, I added walnuts to the mix and used 65% dark chocolate. It came out super moist, well-balanced and homely.

Cardamom Chocolate Banana Bread

I rarely cook with cardamom but something about it reminds me of home. Adopting Nathaniel's banana bread recipe at capturesbytk.com, I added walnuts to the mix and used 65% dark chocolate. It came out super moist, well-balanced and homely.

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Ingredients

5” x 9” loaf
  1. 8 tbsp (113 g)unsalted butter, softened
  2. 2/3 cup (142 g)light brown sugar
  3. 1 tspChinese Five Spice, or 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  4. 1 tspground cardamom
  5. 1 tspbaking soda
  6. 1 tspbaking powder
  7. 1 tspfine sea salt
  8. 1 tspvanilla extract
  9. 1 1/2 cup (340 g)ripe bananas (about 3 bananas)
  10. 1/4 cup (85 g)honey
  11. 2large eggs
  12. 2 1/4 cup (269 g)all-purpose flour
  13. 1/2 cup (57 g)chopped walnuts (optional)
  14. 1banana, cubed
  15. 4oz (110 g) semi-sweet chocolate, roughly chopped
  16. 3 tbspsweetened condensed milk
  17. 1banana, sliced long-ways

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 325°F (162°C). Lightly grease or line a 5” x 9” pan with parchment paper and set aside.

  2. 2

    In a large mixing bowl, beat the softened butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract, cardamom, Chinese Five Spice, baking soda, baking powder and salt on medium speed or until smooth.

  3. 3

    Chop up your ripe bananas and add them to a food processor, along with the honey, and eggs. Blitz this mixture until smooth, then pour it into the large mixing bowl and mix until well combined.

  4. 4

    Add in the flour and walnuts and beat just until smooth. Carefully stir chopped chocolate and banana cubes into the batter until incorporated. Transfer the batter to the pan.

  5. 5

    Take 3 heaping tablespoons of sweetened condensed milk and swirl them into the batter. Slice up one banana long-ways and place it flat-side up on top of the batter.

  6. 6

    Bake for 65 minutes. Check on the bread with 20 minutes left, if it’s browning too much, gently place a piece of aluminum foil over top. Remove the bread from the oven; a long toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean, with a few wet crumbs clinging to it. The toothpick shouldn't show any sign of uncooked batter. If it does, bake the bread an additional 5 minutes, or until it tests done.

  7. 7

    Allow the bread to cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Remove it from the pan and cool it completely on a rack.

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Tunarap
Tunarap @para_pabulum
I love spices and herb. Fell in love with this recipe already.
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