Best Chocolate Banana Bread

This recipe comes from joyofbaking.com. I baked this for 50 minutes and waited about five minutes more to remove the bread carefully from the pan and let it cool completley on the cooling rack. If i would've followed the original recipe it might not have been so so moist.

Steps

Preheat oven to 350 degrees f and place oven rack to middle position.

Butter and flour the bottom and sides of a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan.

Set aside.

Place the nuts on a baking sheet and bake for about 8 - 10 minutes or until lightly toasted.

Let cool and then chop coarsely.

In a large bowl whisk together the flour , cocoa powder , sugar , baking powder , baking soda , and salt.

Set aside.

In a medium-sized bowl combine the mashed bananas , eggs , melted butter , and vanilla.

With a rubber spatula or wooden spoon , lightly fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined and batter is thick and chunky.

Fold in the nuts and chocolate chips.

Scrape batter into prepared pan and sprinkle the top of the bread with coarse brown sugar.

Bake until bread has risen and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean , about 55 to 65 minutes.

Place on a wire rack to cool and then remove the bread from the pan.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Ingredients

walnuts, all-purpose flour, dutch-processed cocoa powder, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, white chocolate chips, eggs, unsalted butter, bananas, pure vanilla extract, demerara sugar