Banana Bread
Test Kitchen's Favorite Banana-Chocolate Chip Bread
It's an easy-to-make anytime treat.
Ingredients:
- 1 stick unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 overripe bananas, preferably frozen and thawed, mashed (1 ½ cups)
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Brush a standard 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with butter and dust with flour, tapping out excess. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cardamom, and cinnamon, 30 seconds.
- In another bowl, whisk together butter, bananas, eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla until smooth.
- Make a well in flour mixture and pour banana mixture into it.
- Stir together until mostly combined but some dry flour remains.
- Add chocolate chips and continue stirring just until evenly distributed throughout and no dry flour remains.
- Transfer batter to prepared loaf pan.
- Bake until a tester inserted in center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour, 10 minutes.
- Let cool in pan 10 minutes, then transfer loaf to a wire rack and let cool completely.