Banana Bread 2.0

Pumped, loaded, and delicious!
Topped it with shaved coconut, walnuts, and chocolate chips.

I made the Banana bread recipe many years ago, in 2018 to be precise, for a local baking brand using their products. We shot it then in the trendy style of the mid 2010; square videos, top view, less than a minute, and a quick edit.

I made the recipe many times after it and each time I change something in it. Sometimes I add more chocolate, more and different nuts, and sometimes I get naughty and add brandy or bourbon in the mix. Hence the Banana Bread 2.0.

I took these photos in 2020 when everyone and their mother made sourdough bread and banana bread. And I was no exception. I made the recipe again in 2021 when I moved to live on my own and I had a tablecloth laid out on my dining table. I had the space to do so and have some flowers and plants. Or leaves that I pick up on my walks around Achrafieh. I always picked fig leaves or wild flowers and left them until they’re dried up.

I made this bread recently as well with leftover bananas that went from bright yellow to spotted brown then to completely brown. Each time, the bread got more glammed up, like a Christmas tree you keep adding ornaments to.

This is the recipe I follow.
Make it your own.

Banana Bread 2.0

Pumped, loaded, and delicious!
Topped it with shaved coconut, walnuts, and chocolate chips.

Courses: Dessert

Print Recipe

Prep Time 10 mins Cook Time 50 mins Rest Time 90 mins Total Time 2 hrs 30 mins Difficulty: Beginner

Ingredients

Servings

• 100 g unsalted butter (softened)
• ¹⁄₂ cup light brown sugar
• 3-4 ripe bananas
• 2 eggs
• ¹⁄₃ cup labneh
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tbsp vanilla sugar (or your favorite vanilla)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
• ¹⁄₂ cup chopped walnuts
• ¹⁄₂ cup chocolate chips or chunks (for topping)
• ¹⁄₂ cup unsweetened coocnut flakes (for topping)

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C
2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas using a fork
3. Add the butter and sugar beat together until creamy
4. Add in the eggs and labneh and vanilla extract and mix until well incorporated
5. Add the flour, desiccated coconut, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon and mix on low speed until the flour is incorpotated
6. Stir in walnuts and half of the chocolate chips or chunks
7. Lightly grease a 35x12cm (or 23x15cm) loaf pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper
8. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and sprinkle with the coconut flakes and the remaining chocolate
9. Bake for about 50 minutes until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
10. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, and then remove it and continue cooling for an hour on a wire rack, unless you want to start eating it warm

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