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Dark Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

Guaranteed to be your favourite new chocolate chip banana bread recipe! The addition of Ensure® and lots of bananas make this loaf moist and nutritious.

Stephanie Jamain, RD, Dietitian at Abbott Nutrition

Ready in

1 hour 30 minutes

Makes

12 servings

Vegetarian

Respects lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet

Ingredients

  • 1 bottle (235 mL) Vanilla Ensure® Regular
  • 625 mL (2 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
  • 5 mL (1 tsp) baking powder
  • 2 mL (½ tsp) baking soda
  • 2 mL (½ tsp) ground cinnamon
  • 1 mL (¼ tsp) salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 125 mL (½ cup) brown sugar, packed
  • 125 mL (½ cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • 375 mL (1 ½ cups) bananas (approximately 3 medium-size bananas), mashed
  • 125 mL (½ cup) dark chocolate chips

How to make

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Grease a 23 x 12-cm (9 x 5-inch) loaf pan.
  2. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
  3. In a large bowl, cream brown sugar and butter with a beater. Whisk in egg, mashed bananas, and Ensure® Regular.
  4. Mix dry ingredients into wet mixture until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
  5. Bake for 55 minutes, or until top of bread turns brown and cracks along the top.

Tips

Substitute with whole-wheat flour and Ensure® scFOS Fibre for a higher fibre version.

Lock in moisture by covering the bread with foil and letting it sit for 30 minutes when removed from the oven.

Nutrition facts

Serving Size: 1 slice

Calories 300

Fat 12 g

Sodium 150 mg

Carbohydrate 44 g

Dietary fibre 2 g

Protein 5 g

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* From a survey of 1,038 independent-living adults aged 50+ who added 1 serving of Ensure® Protein Max 30 g per day for at least 5 days over a 2-week period, compared to control group (p<0.0001).

Canadian formulation is similar to the one used in the survey. Applies to Chocolate and Vanilla flavours.

† Compared to one serving (235 mL) of Ensure® Regular.
‡ Per 330-mL serving.

§ Brand of oral nutritional supplements.

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