Mama's Famous Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

So my mom’s famous chocolate chip banana bread is actually from a recipe! She does make a few tweaks to the recipe (like the addition of chocolate chips!!!) and she uses honey instead of brown sugar for a moist bread. I gotta give the woman some credit. She also has a secret trick–after she butters the loaf pan, she dusts a little sugar on pan so when baked, the outside of the bread has a sugary crunch. So good.

This bread takes me back. Way back. I’ve been eating this bread since I was a wee thing. Home to me smells like freshly baked banana bread. Unfortunately, I don’t eat it now because of the wheat, but I love giving it as a gift. A small loaf of bread is such a good gift, don’t you agree? This is also a great recipe to use up those too brown bananas. It’s super versatile, ya’ll.

This recipe makes two small loafs or one large loaf.

Notes: Try honey instead of brown sugar, add 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of nuts and make sure to dust that pan with sugar! We don’t want to be too healthy 🙂

Do you have recipes that remind you of home? I’d love to hear about them in the comments!

love,
melanie

12 thoughts on “Mama’s Famous Chocolate Chip Banana Bread”

Mother Hen September 24, 2014 at 3:04 pm

I also throw in some chocolate chips with the banana bread mix..So good!

melanie Post authorSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:27 pm

YES! Banana and chocolate is the best combo!

melanie September 24, 2014 at 7:18 pm

what great timing, I was just thinking of making banana bread because I have four browning bananas in the fruit bowl in front of me. I’ll definitely try this out!

melanie Post authorSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:28 pm

Do it! Let me know how it turns out!

Raissomat September 25, 2014 at 2:40 am

Beautiful picture! My other half doesn’t like bananas in baked goods. I for one love it!! Might make this whitout the chocolate, in a muffin tin, so I can eventually freeze some. My mum didn’t like to cook much when We were small but she had to. Still her lentil stew and one special leek and potato bake are home to me. Lost home I would add, since my mum died and no one knows the recipes she used, if she used them. The only thing that comes to my kind that tastes like home and is still available is chestnut honey. We used to have honeybees and our own honey (before varroa) and now friends of us make one that tastes ALMOST EXACTLY the same, I love it so much. Home in a jar. In a kilo jar in my case 😀

Raissomat September 25, 2014 at 6:30 am

ok, I just made this recipe (with a mix of poppy seeds, almond meal and cashew chunks subbing the nuts and two tbsp of homemade applesauce) in muffins and gave some of them to our downsatairs neighbors for their trip (they leave tonight for holidays). few seconds later their door sprung open and they yelled up “OmG these are deliciouss!!
success.
1. melanie Post authorSeptember 25, 2014 at 3:34 pm
  
  Yay!

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Courtney L February 13, 2015 at 1:45 pm

Weird question, but is that cookbook from the La Leche League? When I was little many of our “family recipes” came from my mom’s dogeared copy. The type and color of the pages look familiar to me.