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Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread

A deeply banana-sweet loaf with nutty browned butter, a tender moist crumb, pockets of melty chocolate and a crackly sugared top.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread

Ingredients

  • 3½ medium400 gBananavery ripe, mashed
  • 2 cups240 gAll-purpose flour
  • ½ cup100 gUnsalted butter
  • ½ cup packed120 gBrown sugar
  • 2½ tsp10 gGranulated sugar
  • 2 large100 gEggsroom temperature
  • ¼ cup60 gSour cream
  • 2 tsp8 gVanilla extract
  • 1⅛ tsp5 gBaking soda
  • ¾ tsp4 gSalt
  • ¾ tsp2 gGround cinnamon
  • ¾ cup140 gSemisweet chocolate chips
  • ¾ tsp3 gCanola oilfor greasing the pan

Steps

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan with the canola oil and line it with a parchment sling.
  2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, swirling, until it foams and smells nutty with golden-brown specks, 4–5 minutes. Pour it into a large bowl and cool 10 minutes.
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; this is the dry mix.
  4. Whisk the brown sugar into the browned butter, then whisk in the eggs one at a time, followed by the sour cream and vanilla.
  5. Stir the mashed banana into the butter mixture until combined.
  6. Fold the dry mix into the banana mixture with a spatula until just a few streaks of flour remain.
  7. Set aside a quarter of the chocolate chips. Fold the remaining three-quarters of the chocolate chips into the batter.
  8. Scrape the batter into the pan and smooth the top. Scatter the reserved quarter of the chocolate chips over it, then sprinkle the granulated sugar evenly over the top for a crackly crust.
  9. Bake 55–65 minutes, tenting with foil after 40 minutes if browning fast, until a toothpick in the center comes out clean apart from melted chocolate.
  10. Cool in the pan 15 minutes, lift out by the parchment and cool on a rack at least 45 minutes before cutting into 12 slices.

Food safety: Don't taste raw dough or batter: raw flour and raw eggs can carry germs.

Contains: Milk, Egg, Gluten. Some brands contain soy.

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