Chocolate chip banana bread made with soft white wheat berries. This bread is soft, moist and deliciously sweet. Plus it is made with freshly milled flour for added health benefits. We enjoy this bread for breakfast or dessert!

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Why I Mill My Own Flour

I have been milling my own wheat for awhile now. When I found out about the chemicals and toxins in the store bought flour, I knew I had to make a big change. Thankfully the processes of milling flour is easy. Only one more step was added to my baking steps. Freshly milled flour has more nutrients and minerals than the flour from the store. This is because, when milling flour, the flour looses its nutrients from oxidization. Oxidization is a normal process food goes through. Think about a banana turning brown or an apple turning brown after being cut, the same thing happens for grain when being cut or milled. After about 3 days the flour has lost nearly all of its nutrients and can even become rancid.

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A long time ago, people wanted to make flour available to everyone easily at a store. These people knew the flour would spoil after three days. So they invented a steal rolling mill to separate out the bran and germ, which contains natural oil that spoils the flour, from the endosperm. This was a miracle at the time as the flour was now able to store for a long time. Many years go by and we now know that the endosperm contains mostly starch and lacks almost all of nutrients wheat was to contain. By digesting the store flour, people now have gluten intolerance, cancers and diseases that were never around 130 years ago. Thankfully when you freshly mill flour and bake it, most nutrients will stay intact.

For more information, go to the deception of flour page.

How to Make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Measure out 200 grams of soft white wheat. Mill the wheat on the finest setting. Set aside. To learn more about how I mill flour and where to buy grains, visit milling grains page.

In a large mixing bowl, cream together 1/2 cup of softened unsalted butter, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 150 grams of cane sugar (about 3/4 cup). Then add 2 eggs. Mix well.

creamed butter, sugar with eggs and vanilla

In another bowl, mash 3 bananas until only small lumps are left.

These bananas should be ripe. I will throw ripe bananas into the freezer and then they are ready when baking with ripe banana recipes. Just allow the bananas to fully defrost before adding to the bread batter.

Add mashed bananas to egg mixture.

Add the 200 grams of freshly milled flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon of salt to batter and mix until combined.

Measure out 200 grams of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Add 175 grams of chocolate chips in the batter and gently mix in.

Pour the batter into a well greased or parchment lined loaf pan.

Add the remaining chocolate chips on top of the bread batter.

Bake for 40-50 minutes.

Bread should be dark but not burnt. Freshly milled flour tends to darken more than white store flour.

Store in an air-tight container at room temp for up to a week.

Honey Substitution

I like to use honey whenever possible. It can be substituted in place of the sugar. Use 168 grams of honey and then increase the flour to a total of 270 grams.

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Yield: 1 loaf