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Chocolate Orange Banana Bread

February 28, 2018 by Ciara Attwell, Updated October 27, 2022

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A delicious and easy banana bread recipe flavoured with orange and chocolate chips. This recipe is also a bit healthier using honey instead of refined sugar.

chocolate orange banana bread

Right now outside it’s snowing… proper road-closing school-shutting snow! With nowhere to go and not much to do I’ve spent the last couple of days doing a lot of baking!

And nothing says a snow day like a delicious and warming slice of banana bread! 

My recipe for Strawberry Banana Bread has been really popular for a while now but I fancied changing up the flavours a little.

I had some oranges that needed to be eaten along with a packet of chocolate chips in the cupboard. So I decided to try out a chocolate orange version instead… and I wasn’t disappointed!

sliced chocolate orange banana bread

Tips for making Banana Bread

My recipe for this banana bread is refined sugar free, instead using the natural sweetness of the bananas and also some honey to sweeten it. This is why it’s best to use very ripe bananas. The ones I used in this recipe were almost black… the riper the better in my opinion!

This is a great recipe to make with the kids. It’s relatively simple to make, using just two bowls and no special equipment as everything is mixed by hand.

The chocolate orange banana bread will also keep for up to 48 hours in an airtight tin. Although to be completely honest with you it probably won’t last that long!

You can also slice it and keep it in the freezer. It makes a really delicious and filling afternoon snack and is perfect to pop to into school lunch boxes for a sweet treat.

chocolate orange banana bread served with fruit

If you try my recipe please come back and let me know what you think in the comments. I’ve also been getting so many messages and tags on Instagram from you guys making my recipes. Please keep sending me the pictures. Its always the highlight of my day to see them!

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A delicious and easy banana bread recipe flavoured with orange and chocolate chips. This recipe is also a bit healthier using honey instead of refined sugar.

Chocolate Orange Banana Bread


★★★★★ 5 from 9 reviews
  • Author: Ciara Attwell
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 50 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 12
  • Category: Cakes
  • Method: Baked
  • Cuisine: European
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Description

  • 275g / 1.75 cups plain or all purpose flour (can be gluten free)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed
  • 75g / 0.3 cup coconut oil or butter, melted
  • 70g / 0.3 cup honey
  • 50g / 0.25 cup plain yogurt
  • 1 medium egg
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 orange
  • 75g /0.5 cup chocolate chips

Ingredients

  1. Preheat the oven to 180c/350f. Grease and line a 2lb baking tin with parchment paper.
  2. Add the flour, baking soda and baking powder to a large bowl and mix with a spoon.
  3. In another bowl add the mashed banana, coconut oil or butter, honey, yogurt, egg and vanilla extract and mix well with a spoon.
  4. Add the zest and juice of the whole orange and mix again.
  5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix with a spoon just enough until all the ingredients have combined.
  6. Finally stir in the chocolate chips.
  7. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove, cover loosely with tin foil (this will stop the top of the bread getting too brown) and then return to the oven for another 20-25 minutes until the bread is cooked through and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out dry.
  8. Once the loaf has cooked, remove it from the oven. Allow to cool in the tin for 5-10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Instructions

This bread will keep in an airtight tin for up to 48 hours. It can also be sliced and frozen and defrosted at room temperature.

1 slice22515 g88.1 mg8.9 g6.4 g34.1 g2.3 g3.6 g
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Comments

  1. David says

    June 23, 2022 at 7:08 pm

    Made this earlier fantastic banana bread tasted lush best banana bread I have made so far great recipe will be making this regularly

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  2. David says

    June 23, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    Just made this and cooling down smells fantastic can’t wait to try it, great recipe and nice and easy to make

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  3. Preena says

    September 30, 2019 at 6:32 am

    Thankyou Ciara.

    Reply
  4. Preena says

    September 27, 2019 at 10:48 am

    Hi Ciara, which gluten free flour can I use instead of all purpose flour? I want to bake it for my 2.5 yr old son. He loves oranges, he may like the orange flavour in the bread.

    Reply
    • Ciara Attwell says

      September 29, 2019 at 2:38 pm

      Any gluten free flour that you can find in your shop/supermarket will work

      Reply
  5. Joelene says

    April 9, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    So delicious! I love the tinfoil idea for covering it up halfway to avoid burning – as I find this happens usually. The batter tasted like a smoothie! My 2.5yr old devoured his piece & we call it “chocolate chip sunshine bread”. Note: I used maple syrup because we make our own & was out of raw honey.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Ciara Attwell says

      April 11, 2019 at 12:00 pm

      So glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  6. Jo says

    February 26, 2019 at 2:44 am

    Delicious! Such an easy and reliable, not to mention tasty recipe. Just like others have said, this doesn’t last long, especially not once the aroma of the banana bread fills the house!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  7. Kathy B says

    April 16, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    This chocolate orange banana bread is absolutely delicious! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Ciara Attwell says

      April 16, 2018 at 2:03 pm

      Yay!! So glad you liked it!

      Reply
  8. Liza says

    March 23, 2018 at 3:00 pm

    So good! The entire loaf was gone the same day we baked it!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  9. c says

    March 17, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    hello, could I use dates instead of chocolate chips or not add them at all? x

    Reply
    • Ciara Attwell says

      March 18, 2018 at 9:32 am

      Yes you could leave them out altogether. You could add some chopped dates but not too many as it might change the consistency of the mixture and then alter the cooking time, etc

      Reply
  10. Carrie says

    March 15, 2018 at 5:35 pm

    Kids loved this. Put some into their lunchbox today and it all came back eaten!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  11. Lindsay says

    March 12, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    Delicious! I love this recipie – tastes really good and great for using up bananas. Unfortunately it’s so good, none of it has made it to the freezer yet!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  12. Lisa P says

    March 7, 2018 at 11:44 am

    Tried this at the weekend and everyone loved it! It didn’t even last an hour! Next time I’m making double!

    ★★★★★

    Reply

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