This gluten free chocolate chip banana bread recipe is very easy to make. It tastes delicious and is made with simple ingredients such as gluten free flour, chocolate chips and ripe bananas. Gluten free banana bread is always perfect as a dessert, snack or breakfast treat.

Delicious Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Our recipe should take you only 10-15 minutes or so to prepare and clean up. Please be aware that this is an oven-baked gluten free banana bread recipe. It is not made with a bread machine. For more banana bread recipes, please visit our main section on Easy Banana Bread Variations. You will also find a printable and “pin-able” recipe at the bottom of this page. If you liked this recipe, we hope you will leave a comment below and give us a 5 star rating. Thanks!

Ingredients – Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

8 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened)
2 – Large Eggs
3 – Bananas (ripe & large sized) – Use 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas to be exact
1 Cup – Light Brown Sugar (packed cup)
2 Cups – Gluten Free All Purpose Flour – Use a gluten free all purpose flour that includes xanthan gum or an equivalent. See tips section for details.
1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract
1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon – Salt
1 Cup – Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (morsels)

Servings – Roughly 12 slices

Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, hand mixer, long wooden spoon, 9 by 5 bread pan, oven mitts, silicon spatula, cooling rack and an oven.

Key Ingredients – Gluten Free Flour, Ripe Bananas and Chocolate Chips

Gluten free flour, chocolate chips & bananas

Instructions – Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Grease bread pan (if necessary).
Mash bananas with a fork.
Soften butter in a microwave.
Lightly beat eggs.
Stir eggs, bananas and butter together. Then add the brown sugar & stir until creamy.
Mix in the remaining ingredients (except the chocolate chips). For the best results (see tips section), stir in the flour in small batches (i.e. 1/4 of total flour at a time). Stir until batter is completely mixed.
Add the chocolate chips to the batter. Stir in chips until fully mixed into batter.
Pour batter into bread pan. Smooth out the top of the batter in the bread pan.
Bake in the oven for 60-65 minutes.
Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.
After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.
Please READ the tips section below for extra information on how to make this recipe successfully and to avoid common gluten free banana bread problems.

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Tips – Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

The tips below are designed to help gluten free banana bread “novices” and/or people with limited baking experience.
Click on our “print recipe” link if you want to print out this recipe. It includes all of the recipe’s ingredients and instructions. However, the recipe print function does not include our tips section. Please read the tips section in order to avoid common recipe problems.
If you are looking for more gluten free ideas, you might also like our Gluten Free Blueberry Banana Bread. Or if you have a bread machine, you might like our Bread Machine Gluten Free Banana Bread.

Use RIPE bananas for the best taste. Ripe bananas are soft and the yellow peel is covered with many small black spots. Hard yellow/green(ish) bananas are too starchy and have much less banana flavor. FYI – Perfectly yellow bananas are not fully ripe and do not have the best flavor.
In case, you like to use cups versus banana “sizes”… 3 medium-sized bananas equal roughly 1 to 1 1/4 cups of mashed bananas (not sliced bananas). 3 large-sized bananas equal roughly 1 1/3 to 1 2/3 cups of mashed bananas (not sliced bananas). Of course, banana sizes can vary greatly… and my version of medium and large-sized bananas may differ from yours!
For the most accurate results, you should use exactly 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas. Use a measuring cup to measure the mashed bananas. If you don’t have enough mashed bananas to equal 1 1/2 cups, you can add a little milk until the mashed bananas (plus milk) equals 1 1/2 cups in the measuring cup. Using exactly 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas will help to prevent your gluten free banana bread from being too dry or too wet.

Optional – For more variety, you can replace 1/2 of the chocolate chips with gluten free varieties of chopped walnuts, dried cranberries, etc. This would help you to create gluten free chocolate chip banana nut bread, gluten free chocolate chip cranberry banana bread, etc.
Optional – For extra chocolate flavor and a more “chocolaty” appearance, you can press a handful of chocolate chips into the top of the gluten free banana bread AFTER you remove it from the bread pan (while the banana bread is still hot). This reduces the potential for the exterior chocolate to stick to your oven mitts and for damaging the shape of the exterior chocolate chips (when you remove the banana bread from the bread pan). Or you can use baking parchment paper so you can lift the banana bread out of the bread pan without touching the top of the banana bread (and potentially messing up any “exterior” chocolate chips).

As you probably know, many kinds of gluten free flour don’t seem to retain moisture as well as wheat-based flour. Nevertheless, the bananas & brown sugar in this recipe helps to make this banana bread moist & delicious.
Gluten free flour sometimes tends to clump and if not mixed well, you may find small flour clumps in your finished banana bread. To solve this problem, you can use an electric hand mixer (lowest setting) or you can gradually add & stir in the flour (i.e. 1/4 of the total flour at a time) into the wet ingredients.
This recipe is based on using a gluten free all purpose flour that includes xanthan gum as an ingredient. Xanthan gum is included in many commercial gluten free flours because it helps to provide structure to gluten free baked goods. Without xanthan gum (or an equivalent ingredient), gluten free baked goods tend to be flatter and denser. However, please check with your doctor to see if you have any potential issues with xanthan gum. For more information on xanthan gum, you might like to read this Bob’s Red Mill article “What Does Xanthan Gum Do?“.

You need to use gluten free ALL PURPOSE FLOUR (and NOT gluten free measure for measure flour). Gluten free measure for measure flour can weigh differently than gluten free all purpose flour (on a cup basis). For example, the King Arthur gluten free measure for measure flour weighs less (per cup) than the King Arthur gluten free all-purpose flour. Therefore, the use of gluten free measure for measure flour can throw off this recipe.
Gluten free flours can differ significantly as they are often a combination of different flours & starches such as rice flour, tapioca flour, potato starch, etc, You will need to find a commercial flour that works best based on your family’s preferences and health issues.
Some commercially available gluten free flours do not include xanthan gum (read the label carefully) and you will have to add the xanthan gum (or equivalent substitute) as a separate ingredient. However, excess xanthan gum can lead to the gluten free banana bread being too gummy and ruining your gluten free banana bread’s “mouth feel”.

There are a wide variety of gluten free flours. They can be made from a range of different gluten free ingredients such as rice flour, sorghum flour, potato flour, millet flour, etc. Unfortunately, this can lead to different bread densities, consistencies and flavors. Therefore, you will need to find a brand that your family likes and meets your family’s dietary requirements. For this recipe, I like to use Pillsbury Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Blend.
Gluten free flour is more expensive than regular all-purpose wheat flour. However, if cost is an issue, you can find less expensive brands such as Walmart’s Great Value Gluten Free Flour.

READ the ingredient labels to ensure that all of your ingredients (i.e. chocolate chips) are gluten free. If they have been packaged in a factory producing food including gluten, they might be contaminated with traces of gluten. For additional information, you might like to read the article from the Celiac Disease Foundation called How To Tell If A Packaged Food Product Is Gluten-Free. It has useful tips such as “wheat-free does not necessarily mean gluten-free”.
For more information on a gluten free diet, you might like to read this Mayo Clinic article and this Wikipedia article.
Optional – Consider using separate “gluten free only” mixing bowls, kitchen tools, bread pans, etc. in order to create your homemade gluten free breads & desserts. If possible, you shouldn’t make gluten free banana bread with equipment that you also use to create baked goods containing wheat flour & other ingredients with gluten. This helps to reduce the potential for cross contamination by gluten (as traces of gluten may remain on some of the equipment). Unfortunately, this also means that you would need two sets of equipment – one set to make gluten free recipes and a second set for any recipes that contain gluten.

This doesn’t happen often but if the top of the banana bread looks too moist or under cooked, you should try the “toothpick test”. Gently push a toothpick or long wooden skewer into the top of the bread and see if any batter sticks to the toothpick. If batter is sticking to the toothpick then it hasn’t completely cooked. Place the bread pan back into the still hot oven for another 3 or 4 minutes. Make sure to wear oven gloves because the bread pan will be very hot. After the 3 or 4 minutes, remove the bread pan and test the banana bread again with a tooth pick.
If your banana breads are sticking to the bottom of your bread pan, you should consider either “greasing” the bottom of the pan with butter or vegetable oil, using a cooking spray, using a nonstick pan or trying baking parchment paper. Make sure the “greasing” element is gluten free and manufactured in a gluten free environment.

If you have a problem with a banana bread recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly (i.e. using the correct oven temperature), using the correct amounts of ingredients (i.e. don’t eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup or accidentally add a tablespoon when a teaspoon is called for), using the correct ingredients (i.e. baking soda/powder versus yeast), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes.
In addition, you should always try to use relatively fresh baking soda & powder for the best results. For example, using baking soda from an open container (that has been deodorizing your refrigerator for months) may lead to subpar results. Old & hard baking soda/powder may lead to rising problems and/or leave small bitter clumps in your gluten free banana bread.
Wear oven mitts when dealing with a hot bread pan, oven, etc.
In regards to any gluten-related medical or health issues, please see your doctor. Bread Dad does not provide any health or medical advice.
Visit Bread Dad’s Gluten Free section for gluten free cookbooks, gluten free flour, gluten free mixes, etc.
For more easy banana bread recipes (i.e. blueberry, cranberry, chocolate chip, vegan, oatmeal, etc.), please visit Bread Dad’s main Banana Bread Recipes section.

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Reference Sources

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Wikipedia, Gluten
Wikipedia, Gluten-Free Diet
Wikipedia, Types of Chocolate

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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Prep Time10

Cook Time1

Total Time1 10

Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: banana bread, banana bread recipe, gluten free banana bread, gluten free banana bread recipe, gluten free chocolate chip banana bread

Servings: Slices

Calories: 328kcal

Author: Bread Dad

Ingredients

8 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter (softened)
2 Eggs (large)
3 Bananas (ripe & large sized) – Use 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas to be exact
1 Cup Light Brown Sugar (packed cup)
2 Cups Gluten Free All Purpose Flour – Use a gluten free all purpose flour that includes xanthan gum or an equivalent. See tips for details.
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (morsels)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Grease bread pan (if necessary).
Mash bananas with a fork.
Soften butter in a microwave.
Lightly beat eggs.
Stir eggs, bananas and butter together. Then add the brown sugar & stir until creamy.
Mix in the remaining ingredients (except the chocolate chips). For the best results (see tips section), stir in the flour in small batches (i.e. 1/4 of total flour at a time). Stir until batter is completely mixed.
Add the chocolate chips to the batter. Stir in chips until fully mixed into batter.
Pour batter into bread pan. Smooth out the top of the batter in the bread pan.
Bake in the oven for 60-65 minutes.
Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.
After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.

Notes

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