If you are big banana bread lovers like us, never let another banana go to waste with this Chocolate Chip Banana Bread recipe with only a few ingredients (including a secret ingredient), you will get the best moist crumbs through the whole loaf.
About This Recipe:
This easy, moist chocolate chip banana bread is the easiest banana bread recipe you’ll ever make! It is not your classic recipe for quick bread, but it is super delicious with only a few ingredients needed and even makes for a delicious dessert recipe.
I didn’t even have to pull out a single measuring spoon or cup. The batter was in the pan and ready to bake before my oven was even ready!
Ingredient Notes
For this recipe, you will only need 4 simple ingredients: large ripe bananas, eggs, chocolate chips, and yellow cake mix.
The only dry ingredient you need to make the best chocolate chip banana bread is yellow cake mix (preferably the 15.25 oz box).
This will replace any vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, or any other dry ingredients you might use in the flour mixture for a regular banana bread recipe.
How to Make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread:
- Mash bananas in a large mixing bowl.
- Add in the yellow cake mix, eggs, and chocolate chips to the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Spray the loaf pan well with nonstick cooking spray and pour batter into the prepared loaf pan. It will fill one regular-sized loaf pan or 2 smaller ones.
- Bake at 350°F for 45-50 minutes for one loaf pan, or 35-40 minutes for two small pans.
- Let the pan is for 5-10 minutes and then remove the perfect banana bread from the pan and let it continue to cool completely on a wire rack.
Expert Tips:
- This banana bread lasts 4 days on the counter at room temperature, wrapped in plastic wrap or aluminum foil, or up to a week when stored in the fridge.
- To freeze it, store in a ziplock freezer bag or an airtight container for about 4 months.
- Bananas are starting to ripen and turn sweeter when brown spots begin to appear on the skin. If you let them go another few days, they will be at their best for banana bread and perfect for a mashed banana texture.
- This recipe can be made in one regular-sized 9×5-inch loaf pan or 2 smaller loaf pans.
Recipe FAQ’s
There are regular chocolate chips added to this recipe, but you could add nuts for a little bit of crunch and create a banana nut bread.
Pick your favorite. We use regular semi sweet chocolate chips, but you can use dark chocolate or milk chocolate chunks if you prefer. Mini chocolate chips work great too!
Top the banana bread with some of the reserved chocolate chips on top of the entire loaf.
To create a little bit of a crunch on the top, sprinkle white sugar on top for a little extra flair to this already perfect recipe.
Instead of using a loaf pan, use a muffin pan, filling the muffin cups ⅔ full with the banana batter and bake them at 350℉ for 15-20 minutes.
Try out 2-ingredient banana muffins or mini chocolate chip muffins for more delicious recipes to try.
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 bananas, ripe
- 1 15.25 ounces yellow cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
Equipment
Instructions
- Smash bananas in a large bowl.
- Add in yellow cake mix, eggs, and chocolate chips and mix well.
- Spray pan well with nonstick cooking spray and pour batter into pan. It will fill one regular sized loaf pan or 2 smaller ones.
- Bake at 350℉ for 45-50 minutes for one loaf pan, or 35-40 minutes for two small pans.
Notes
Nutrition
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omgosh this looks so good!!
Wowza! Thats a good one. I’m always looking for ways to spruce up boxed cake mixes!
made this the other day…huge hit! It’s really really good!
Wow – no oil! Can’t wait to try it out. 🙂
Yum! Now THIS is my kind of recipes, it looks delicious and the recipe looks easy! Ill have to give this a try!
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Very easy recipe & looks so soft and delicious!
looks delicious and a fun, easy recipe!
I poured these into 18 paper lined muffin cups, sprinkled tops with a bit of raw sugar and baked for 20 minutes. They turned out perfectly and very pretty with the sparkle of sugar. Oh, and I may have added a few more chocolate chips…for the kids, really! 😉 Thanks for the recipe, it’s a keeper and I know I will use it often.
Also delicious with peanut butter cups instead of chocolate chips. Fantastic, easy and delicious idea – Thanks!
Don’t know what I did wrong but the middle of mine was sunken in. 🙁 The sides were good though! lol
I tried this today and o my goodness it was wonderful!
You dont add any liquid?
No liquid. Just follow the directions and it should work great!
I’ve made quite a few different banana recipes but I have to admit, I was slightly skeptical about this one. However, I was in a pinch and needed to make a loaf for work, and happened to have these 4 ingredients on hand. I actually ended up doing 3 mini loaves and they baked up very nicely. Then the taste test…. Delicious!!! Definitely different than other recipes, but I really enjoyed it! Will be making this one again. Thanks!
Made this for my husband today. We LOVED it! I couldn’t believe how easy it was to make. Will be making this again for my family. Thanks foe sharing!
Will this work with a white cake mix instead of yellow?
It should work fine, the color of the bread will be lighter.
I don’t usually comment on things like this but I feel I need to. I do not like banana bread but this is very good. My husband loves walnuts in his banana bread so I did add chopped walnuts. But so easy and so delicious will only make this recipe from here on out! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Hi, I was wondering if there was an easy way to see which recipes are included in each book. I want to make sure I get the one that has the most things that I’d be able to make/ I think I’d like. Thanks!
I didn’t have a yellow cake mix, but used a white cake mix and it came out great! So quick and easy. This will become my go-to banana bread recipe.
Hi. I followed the recipe (used a white cake mix though) and about a 1/3 of the batter ended up on the bottom of my oven. What was left in the pan was delicious. How full should the loaf pan be? Mine was pretty much to the top. Perhaps the bananas were too big? Any ideas?
The loaf pan we used is 9 x 5 inches.
Gonna make this today
I made two batches of this recipe and everyone loved both versions. I used a white cake mix for the first batch (no additions) and a chocolate cake mix plus chocolate chips for the second batch. Within 20 minutes, they both were mixed and in the oven! Easy and delicious!