Delicious Sourdough Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe

This sourdough chocolate banana bread is so decadent and comforting. Make this bread for a dessert or as a healthy breakfast topped with butter!

One of my favorite quick breads is banana bread. However, I am always trying to long ferment my grains. This led to me developing a sourdough version Sourdough Banana Bread Recipe This is the best sourdough banana bread!

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Although this is a simple recipe, it is decadent and pairs so well with a cup of coffee as an evening treat!

I love that recipe because it is long fermented and so delicious! So, the addition of chocolate to that recipe is only reasonable, right!

Actually, my husband came to me with this idea and I had to get to work on it.

Sourdough is so versatile and actually makes great desserts and sweet breads.

The flavor it lends adds a depth that can only come from long fermentation.

Why Sourdough?

Sourdough is a method for making bread products that involves using a sourdough starter. When flour, water, and starter are mixed, they ferment. Meaning, the starter eats off of the sugar in the flour and creates gases that causes it to rise.

This process breaks down the sometimes hard to digest parts of the flour making it much easier to tolerate for a lot of people.

Sourdough also has a different flavor than conventionally yeasted breads. It’s delightfully sour and tangy! This complements a sweet bread especially well!

Also, a sourdough starter is something that can be handed down for generations!

If you are new to sourdough, start here: How to make a Sourdough Starter

After you have an established and active starter, you can convert all of your bread recipes to sourdough making them more easily digestible and so much more delicious!

Here is my favorite sourdough bread recipe: Same Day Sourdough Bread Recipe

For this recipe you will need

Sourdough Starter

Use either active sourdough starter or sourdough discard for this sourdough chocolate banana bread.

Active starter has been fed within the last 24 hours and is bubbly. Sourdough starter discard is hungry starter that may have a liquid on top.

Flour

I use freshly milled flour, but you can use all purpose flour, bread flour, or whole wheat flour.

This is the grain mill I have been using for years: Nutrimill Grain Mill

Honey/Maple Syrup

Olive Oil

You may substitute with vegetable oil or avocado oil.

Salt

Baking powder and Baking soda

Eggs

Bananas

This is a great way to use up overripe bananas.

Vanilla Extract

For full ingredient amounts, see recipe card below

Step by step instructions for making sourdough chocolate banana bread:

1. The night before you want to make the bread, add the starter, honey or maple syrup, and olive oil to a large mixing bowl and combine well.
2. Add the flour and cocoa powder. Mix until well combined.
3. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to ferment overnight or up to 24 hours.
4. The next morning, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
5. In a separate bowl, mash the bananas until smooth.
6. Add the mashed bananas, eggs, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
7. Mix well and add into the bowl with flour mixture from the night before.
8. You can use a stand mixer with a paddle attachment to make this step easier.
9. Using a potato masher or pastry cutter, cut the 2 mixtures together.
10. This may take a couple of minutes but it will come together into a smooth batter.
11. Prepare a loaf pan by placing parchment paper in the bottom and spraying with olive oil.
12. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
13. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean.
14. Let bread cool on a wire rack.

Variations

Add 1 cup of chocolate chips to make this bread even more decadent!

Scoop the batter into a 12 cup muffin tin and bake at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes for the best muffins!

For all of my sourdough recipes, click here: Sourdough Recipes