This chocolate chip banana bread has a long and very meaningful history for us. If I remember correctly, this whole blog, this website and this whole brand started with this recipe, because it was the first recipe we shared on our blog many years ago. It is a recipe that has been present in our family since my paternal grandmother, who made it with apples at the beginning.

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Our mom later started making it with banana, and the whole family liked it so much that it became a signature dessert in a way. And although the original recipe is perfect, over time we have changed a few things to modernize it a bit.

Banana bread is a dessert or breakfast or snack that almost everyone loves. It’s very hard not to love a bread that is so docile, practical and brings such a great reward with so little effort. In fact, we weren’t so wrong back then to choose it as one of the first recipes on the blog, as it is very friendly to get started in baking.

It requires very few ingredients and almost no special utensils, to tell you that my mom even prepares the banana bread using her own hands, without any other utensils. Because, according to her, that’s how you can tell when the dough is ready.

The banana is a fruit that often goes unnoticed, maybe because of its accessibility or because of its familiar flavor, but it is one of those fruits that we tend to leave forgotten in the refrigerator, just like the apple in my case.

However, this is just the best part, because the banana bread is made with very ripe bananas almost black, like those that are forgotten in the refrigerator and that also makes this recipe one of use, which increases the feeling of reward and pleasure.

Imagine killing two birds with one stone. On the one hand you didn’t have to throw away the ripe plantains and on the other hand you made a spectacular recipe that is sure to become one of the regular or flagship recipes in your family. It was and has been in my family. Banana bread is one of my mom’s most famous recipes, just like pan de elote, buñuelos and capirotada, although I’m sure I’m missing something else.

It’s so nice to think and know (and hope) that we all have particular recipes in our families that we all make, sometimes in very specific ways, and that become something that is passed down from generation to generation. Do you have any recipes like that? What are your family recipes?

If you like this recipe, you have to check out our bananas foster, a dessert that will drive you crazy.