Updated 04.15.25
You may not believe it, but I ate my first slice of Banana Bread during a business trip to Barbados and that was when I was in my 30s and since then, I love it. Imagine, coming from a cold and rainy Holland going on a business trip to the Caribbean. I arrived a day prior to the start of a training, I was supposed to give, adjusting to the time difference. Spent most of my time on the beach, sleeping off my jet lag and taking everything in.
An early sun already warmed my face and I decided to have my breakfast outside on the patio of the hotel’s restaurant. I was accompanied by many birds, enjoying themselves on the sugar. It was absolutely wonderful, and so out of this world for me. Sun, flowers, a breeze, the beach, nothing to do, but to get my biological clock back in sink with where I was.
On the extensive breakfast buffet I found something called ‘banana bread’ and thought, this is something I just got to try. So I did and back at my table, squinting against the morning sun, I totally fell in love with it. I thought this was the best thing after the invention of sliced bread. Clearly, banana bread was not a fixture in the Dutch kitchen.
Key Ingredients in This Recipe
You’ll find the complete list of ingredients and exact quantities in the recipe below.
- Granulated sugar – you can also use light brown or dark brown sugar
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Nutmeg
- Cocoa powder
- Ripe bananas
- Eggs
- Pumpkin puree
- Butter
- Chocolate chips – or nibs, chopped chocolate
- Pumpkin seeds
How to Make Chocolate Banana Pumpkin Bread
Step 1 – In one bowl mix sugar, flour, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, baking soda and cocoa powder. In another bowl mix mashed bananas, eggs and pumpkin puree.
Step 2 – Pour the banana-pumpkin mixture over the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
Step 3 – Add melted butter and chocolate chips to the batter and mix again.
Step 4 – Pour the batter in a loaf or cake pan, lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle top with pumpkin seeds.
You can also sprinkle with chocolate chips instead.
Step 5 – Bake this bread in an oven of 350 degrees F for about 1 hour and 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Chocolate Banana Pumpkin Bread
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- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 2 ripe bananas
- 8 ounces butter, melted
- 4 ounces chocolate chips
- 8 ounces pumpkin puree
- 1 ounce pumpkin seeds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and line a loaf or cake pan with parchment paper.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl (sugar thru cocoa powder).
- Mash bananas with a fork and combine with eggs and pumpkin puree.
- Pour bananas mixture over dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- Add melted butter and chocolate chips and mix again until combined.
- Pour batter into loaf or cake pan and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds (NOTE 1).
- Bake until brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Baking time approx. 1 hour and 25 minutes. Allow 20 minutes to cool before slicing.
Notes
- If you want a stronger chocolate flavor, replace pumpkin seeds with chocolate chips.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.