Protein Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

I loveee banana bread.  Anyone else?!  I realized over the weekend that I haven’t actually made it in at least 2 years…wut!  So, since it was the end of the week and we had some overripe bananas, I decided to change that.  I used this recipe that I shared on the blog back in 2016, but I made just a tiny couple changes for this protein chocolate chip banana bread, which I’ll outline below.  It’s all very easy to make and it’s so yummy.  It definitely doesn’t last long in our house.  If you wanted to omit the protein powder, you can do that and instead use 2 cups of flour instead of 1.5 cups…but I don’t think you can notice it and I always like an extra dose of protein for those muscles and to help with satiety!

Protein Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/3  cup melted coconut oil
• 2 eggs
• 4 medium-large mashed bananas
• 1/4 cup almond milk
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1.5 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup protein powder (I used this kind.  I recommend a vanilla flavored one.)
• Dark chocolate chips…as many as you want! (optional, try any mix-ins you want!)  I used the Lily’s Dark Baking Chocolate Chips.

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees and grease loaf pan
• Whisk together eggs and melted coconut oil, then add in mashed bananas, milk, vanilla extract, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and whisk those together as well
• Stir flour and chocolate chips in until just combined
• Bake for 45-50 minutes (or until a toothpick comes out clean) and let cool before slicing
• Enjoy!

If you make it, tag me on Instagram @besshcarter so I can see!

xo,

Bess

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