Our family loves banana bread so much that we sometimes leave bananas to overripe just to bake the bread. This time I chose to bake a chocolate banana bread from here. I made a couple of changes intentionally and a big one unintentionally! Yes, I forgot to add the sugar while mixing the dry ingredients and didnⴠrealize it until I scraped the batter into the loaf pan. I was lazy to put back the batter and mix in the sugar. Also I thought that this would lead to over mixing and will result in a tough bread. So I decided to bake it just like that. You must be wondering how it tasted? guess what it tasted really good!!!!here is a recipe to make Sugar Free Chocolate Banana Bread

Prep time: 15 Mins Cook time: 65 Mins Yields: One9#5 inch loaf Enjoy this sugar free version of chocolate banana bread which as good as the usual bread loaded with sugar.

Sugar Free Chocolate Banana Bread

INGREDIENTS:

1 and 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour

1/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1 cup (See My Notes) Sugar

1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 and 1/4 teaspoons Baking Powder

1/4 teaspoon Salt

1/4 cup Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, melted

1/2 cup Unsweetened Applesauce

1/4 cup Plain Yogurt (I used non fat)

2-3 tablespoons or as needed Water

1 and 1/2 cups (approx. 3 bananas) Bananas ripe and mashed

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1/2 cup Walnuts or Pecans, toasted and chopped

1/4 cup Mini semisweet chocolate chips

method:

Preheat oven to 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Grease or line the loaf pan with parchment paper.

While the oven is preheating toast the nuts for 8-10 minutes and chop it once it is cool.

In a large bowl mix together the dry ingredients (from flour to salt).

In another bowl stir together the oil, applesauce, yogurt, bananas and vanilla extract.

Fold in the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Stir until just combined.

Fold in the nuts and chocolate chips. Do not over-mix the batter.

Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Mine was done after 60 minutes.

Place the pan on a cooling rack and then remove the bread from the pan. Since I had line the pan with parchment paper I was able to remove the bread within a couple of minutes.

MY NOTES:

The original recipe called for 1/2 cup of melted butter, which I have replaced with 1/4 cup of melted extra virgin coconut oil and 1/4 cup applesauce. Also for the 2 eggs, I have used 1/4 cup applesauce and 1/4 cup yogurt and increased the quantity of baking powder by 1/4 teaspoon.

I forgot to add sugar while preparing the batter and realised it only at the end, so just proceeded with it anyway. We did like the bread even without the sugar. I think the bananas were sweet enough. So I guess even if you decide to add sugar, you may not need the entire 1 cup. Even 1/2 cup sugar should be fine.