This vegan chocolate chip banana bread is moist, rich and packed with banana flavor and heaps of chocolate chips! Ideal for breakfast or dessert.
I absolutely adore banana bread, and ever since posting my recipe for a straight up delicious vegan banana bread, I have been wanting to try it with chocolate chips.
And this vegan chocolate chip banana bread tastes as good as it sounds. And as good as it looks!
Banana bread is the best thing to make when you have ripe bananas on hand. Some people would call this (pictured below), overripe. But it’s not really, it’s just very ripe.
It’s the stage where they’re not very appealing to eat straight up, but they’re still totally fine to use in baking.
Delicious With Vegan Butter!
I always like my banana bread slathered with vegan butter. But Jaye tends to enjoy it plain. He sees it more as cake, I see it more as bread.
Any way you prefer, you’re going to have some fun with this, both making it and eating it.
How To Make Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
- Sift all purpose flour into a mixing bowl and add white granulated sugar, light brown sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix it together.
- Add ripe bananas, soy milk and coconut milk to the blender jug and blend until smooth.
- Prepare your flax egg by adding 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed to a bowl with 3 tablespoons of hot water and mixing together. Let it sit for a minute to become gloopy.
- Add the blended banana mix and flax egg to the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl and mix into a batter.
- Add vegan chocolate chips and fold them in.
- Transfer the batter to a prepared 9×5 inch loaf pan (sprayed with non-stick spray and lined with parchment paper along the bottom) and smooth down.
- Add extra vegan chocolate chips directly to the top.
- Place into the oven and bake at 350°F for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the banana bread comes out clean (or with melted chocolate, no wet batter).
- Let the banana bread cool for a few minutes in the pan and then transfer it to a wire cooling rack to cool.
- Slice and serve!
Chocolate Chunks or Chocolate Chips?
If you have any difficulty with getting vegan chocolate chips (I used to not be able to find them anywhere, but now I can), then no worries!
Just chop up your favorite vegan chocolate into chunks and use that instead. It’s just as delicious, in fact some might say it can be more delicious that way as you can make those chunks nice and fat!
When this banana bread is served warm you get melted and gooey chocolate delights in your slice of banana bread, and served cold you bite into chunks of hard and delicious dark chocolate. Either way, it’s a treat.
Storing and Freezing
Kept wrapped and covered this lasts 3-4 days at room temperature.
But if you are a rare individual who will eat this very slowly, then it will last longer if you keep it wrapped and covered in the fridge (up to a week). You can always gently warm up a slice in the microwave.
It’s also freezer friendly for 2 months. Thaw it overnight in the fridge and then bring it to room temperature before serving.
More Delicious Vegan Banana Recipes
- Vegan Banana Cake
- Vegan Banana Cupcakes
- Vegan Banoffee Pie
- Vegan Banana Cream Pie
- Vegan Banana Waffles
- Vegan Banana Pancakes
Did you make this recipe? Be sure to leave a comment and rating below!
Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour (250g)
- ½ cup White Granulated Sugar (100g)
- ½ cup Light Brown Sugar (100g)
- 3 teaspoons Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Nutmeg
- 1 ⅓ cups Mashed Ripe Banana (or 300g peeled weight)*
- ½ cup Soy Milk (120ml) or other non-dairy milk
- 3 Tablespoons Coconut Oil (45g)
- 1 Flax Egg 1 Tablespoon Ground Flaxseed + 3 Tablespoons Hot Water
- 1 cup Vegan Chocolate Chips (175g) plus more to add directly to the top right before baking.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Spray a 9×5 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray and cut out parchment paper to line the bottom.
- Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and add the white granulated sugar, light brown sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix together.
- Measure the correct amount of banana and add it to your blender jug along with the soy milk and coconut oil. Blend until just blended.
- Prepare your flax egg by mixing 1 Tablespoon ground flaxseed with 3 Tablespoons Hot Water and allowing to sit for a minute until it becomes gloopy.
- Pour the blended banana mix over the dry ingredients and add the flax egg and mix into a thick batter.
- Add the vegan chocolate chips and fold them in.
- Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan and spread it out evenly. Sprinkle vegan chocolate chips on top.
- Place into the oven and bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (melted chocolate is fine, wet batter is not).
- Let it cool in the pan for a few minutes before transferring it to a wire cooling rack to cool.
Notes
- Measure the flour correctly, using the ‘spoon and level’ method. Spoon it into your measuring cup and then level off the top with a knife. Don’t scoop it and don’t pack it into the cup. Alternatively weigh it out on a food scale.
- Measure the banana correctly. If you have a food scale then just weigh the peeled banana (300g) before adding to the blender. There is no need to mash it first. If you don’t have a food scale, then mash the banana so you can measure out the correct amount of mashed banana (1 and ⅓ cups).
- Don’t want to use the blender? We like blending the bananas, coconut oil and soy milk as it results in a very even distribution of banana flavor through the batter and a very smooth batter. But if you’d prefer not to involve your blender then you can just mash up your banana, melt the coconut oil and mash it in with your banana and then add the mashed banana and coconut oil to your mixing bowl along with the soy milk.
- Make it gluten-free. If you’d like to make a gluten-free version of this recipe then please check out our vegan gluten free banana bread, you’d just need to add chocolate chips to that recipe.
- Storing and Freezing. Keep it covered at room temperature where it will stay good for 3-4 days. It’s freezer friendly for up to 2 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge.
Tastes just like normal banana bread!
So happy you like it, thank you!
I have probably made this banana bread at least 20 times. And each group I have made it for has always been so impressed.. I will never try another banana bread recipe again because this is hands down the best one out there (vegan or not)
Yay! Thank you so much Lara!
I just made this and it was absolutely delicious! Thank you for this awesome recipe.
So glad you enjoyed it Maria!
I’ve just made this recipe and it is so delicious. I did exactly as it is and I loved. Next time I’ll add a little less sugar because of my personal taste, but that’s all. really worth it making.
So happy you enjoyed it Nara! Thanks so much for the wonderful review!
Really loved this recipe! I definitely think you can use way less sugar and chocolate chips and it’s still super sweet. The recipe is easy to make and comes out perfect every time. Thank you!
Thanks Chloe! Glad to hear you were able to customize it to make it perfect for you! 🙂
I have made this so many times, it is the best recipe I have found. Today I am trying muffins. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much Colleen!
Fabulous recipe with some key changes – I halved the sugar (eliminated the white sugar and kept the brown) and it was definitely sweet enough!
I also used 100g of chocolate instead of 175g, and added some chopped walnuts. I used a tad less baking powder too.
My oven is pretty strong so only needed to bake for 50 minutes.
The result was absolutely perfect!!
Thanks for sharing this recipe. I am now addicted to this banana bread!!
Hi I have a flax allergy is there anything I can use instead?
Sure! You can also use extra mashed banana (3 tablespoons) or applesauce if you have it on hand (also 3 tablespoons). All the best! 🙂
This turned out perfectly!! Usually I end up making a sub or two but I followed this exactly and it did not disappoint. THANK YOU!! Will be making this again!
Wonderful! Thanks Erin!
Unbelievable…. truly!!! I followed the recipe exactly and it turned out soooooooo well!! This one’s a keeper!
Thanks Erin!
I have tried many banana bread recipes but this one is by far the most AMAZING!!!! It’s SO moist with enough banana flavor and it always gets devoured within two days. I added pecans to my batter and slightly less chocolate chips than the recipe calls for (just a bit over 3/4 cup). I’m obsessed with this recipe and can eat this each week!
Thanks so much Shelby!
I just made this last night. I started eating more vegan foods after being vegetarian for three years. This tasted better than any banana bread I’ve ever had before. I’m not a baker, but prep only took about half an hour with ingredients we already had on hand, and my husband and I devoured it all in one sitting! 10/10 would recommend.
Yay! Thank you so much! 🙂