Banana Bread with Dark Chocolate & Walnuts

Ingredients

• 4banana — ripe
• 3egg — medium
• 150 galmond flour
• 75 gMedjool dates — pitted
• 2 tspbaking powder
• 1 tspcinnamon
• 60 gdark chocolate — minimum 70% cocoa
• 60 gwalnuts
• ¼ tspfine sea salt

Method

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 175 °C top and bottom heat. Line a cake tin of approximately 25 cm with baking paper.

2. 2

   Peel three bananas and mash them together with the pitted dates until smooth.

3. 3

   Add the eggs one by one and whisk them into the banana mixture with a whisk.

4. 4

   In a separate bowl, mix the almond flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and sea salt. Briefly fold this into the wet mixture.

5. 5

   Roughly chop the dark chocolate and walnuts. Set aside a small amount of both for the top and fold the rest into the batter.

6. 6

   Spoon the batter into the cake tin and loosely smooth the top.

7. 7

   Peel the fourth banana and cut it lengthwise in half. Place both halves, cut-side up, on top of the batter. Distribute the reserved chocolate and walnuts around them.

8. 8

   Bake for approximately 45–50 minutes. Check from 45 minutes with a skewer; it should come out clean without wet batter.

9. 9

   Let it rest in the tin for 10 minutes. Then remove the banana bread from the tin and let it cool completely.