Chocolatey Banana and Date Bread

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‘Everything goes as long as it has chocolate in it’ !  And that’s very true about any thing (baked or otherwise) that comes out of my kitchen.  Hardly surprising is it? I think I won’t be terribly way off if I stated that ‘Chocolate makes the world go around’ 🙂 While we are on this topic – here are some delectable quotes on chocolate:

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”― Katharine Hepburn

If there’s no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going.”― Jane SeabrookFurry Logic Laugh at Life

“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.”― Sandra Boynton

Now that I have convinced everyone about the goodness of chocolate (not that I needed to try ‘hard’! ) , I present you with my ‘Chocolatey Banana Bread’ ! I cannot take credit for coming up with this idea – Julie from ‘Julie’s family kitchen’ sometime back baked a chocolatey banana loaf which was my inspiration! Thanks Julie!.  The moment I saw that I wondered why I had never thought of it myself considering my thoughts on chocolate above and the fact that I bake banana bread relentlessly – yes! almost every weekend!.. (in fact I would be making it every single weekend if my husband did not end up sometimes stealing and eating my left over ripe bananas 🙁  ). So anyways, as far as adding chocolate – better late than never, right!? So basically I just decided to stick to my original banana nut recipe (I have it by heart now, gosh! baking it so often!) and just made some changes – replaced part of the flour with cocoa and then also replaced some part of the flour with whole wheat and finally also decided to add dates last minute which also helped to cut down on the sugar! See the amazing impact of chocolate ? – It even makes you think healthier  ! 🙂 I also added chocolate chips to make it ‘double chocolatey’ and also walnuts which we all love in our banana bread.

So as you might have guessed by now, this chocolatey banana bread will replace the banana bread in my house now ….and I made an additional loaf this weekend so I can bring it over to Angie’s for Fiesta Friday party!  Cheers to Chocolate! I think it pairs well with Angie’s Latin Lovers 🙂

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34 Comments

  1. Looks awesome, Indu. You are right you didn’t have to sell Chocolate and Bananas! I like the addition of dates. Must have made it so moist.

  2. Yeahhhh, Indira! You made it to Fiesta Friday 😀 And you brought what the FF gang loves the best – chocolate! I love the quotes that you included – I plan to write them down and put them on my fridge! Your chocolatey loaf isn’t going to last very long here, so I am going to get a piece ASAP before it all disappears! I’m so glad you are here!

  3. Oh yum, Indu! I concur with the idea that chocolate makes the world go round. I love banana bread—I grew up on it in fact! Now, I’ll have to work your recipe into the mix and try out this great combo of chocolate and bananas!

  4. Picking a favourite recipe and then making it even better is a real talent. The result does look like a winner. Thanks for bringing it to Fiesta Friday and sharing it with us.

  5. Oh Indu, this sounds delicious! I think I need to throw my banana bread recipe out and replace it with this one. I love dates in baked goods, then you add chocolate too?!?! I wish I could smell it now 🙂 (Love your chocolate quotes too.)

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