Avocado and chocolate are made to be together. It might be surprising at first, but after testing this in my chocolate avocado pie or avocado chocolate mousse, you’ll understand! Avocado adds all the creamy, fudgy texture to cocoa powder. It creates the most decadent fudgy, moist chocolate bread with all the benefits of avocado.
Ingredients and Substitutions
All you need to start baking this amazing moist chocolate bread are:
Ripe Avocado – Soft when touched but with a lovely green flesh, no black spots. If the avocado flesh has dark spots, it will turn into very bitter bread when baked, so make sure you select the perfect avocado to avoid disappointment. Ripe Banana – Or unsweetened apple sauce. This adds sweetness while decreasing the sugar in the bread. It’s also a great way to add extra moisture and a fudgy texture. Nut Butter or seed butter. You can use peanut butter, almond butter, or sunflower seed butter. Avocado Oil or any vegetable oil you love like coconut oil or canola oil. All-Purpose Flour or white whole-wheat flour. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – I always use unsweetened cocoa powder to make it easier to balance the sweetness of the bread. Baking Powder and Baking Soda – to give some rise to the bread. Vanilla Extract – for flavor. Coconut Sugar – You can also use brown sugar or unrefined cane sugar. Avoid liquid sweeteners like maple syrup, or the bread won’t firm up well. Plant-Based Milk like almond milk or soy milk. Salt – To enhance the chocolate flavors. Dark Chocolate Chips – This is optional but this boost the chocolate flavor of the bread.
How To Make Chocolate Avocado Bread
It’s very easy to make this bread as it takes some as you need to find a few ingredients and mash the avocado. But all the work you put in this baking session is so rewarding. The taste and texture are amazing, and you will enjoy a chocolate baked good loaded with nutrients.
Serving
Serve the bread as a dessert, breakfast, or healthy snack with a cup of coffee or tea. Serve the bread plain or with some:
Whipped Coconut Cream Dairy-Free Vanilla Ice Cream A drizzle of peanut butter Banana Slices Fresh Berries like strawberries or raspberries
Variations
You can use this recipe and some of the ingredients below.
Chopped Nuts like pecans, and walnut – add 1/2 a cup with the chocolate chips or instead of the chocolate chips. Shredded Coconut – Stir in 1/3 cup of the dry ingredients. Add 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
Allergy Swaps
Below are some ingredients swap ideas if you need them.
Gluten-Free – I didn’t try all-purpose gluten-free flour for this recipe. It might work with the same amount if your flour contains added xanthan gum. However, remember that gluten-free flour always makes vegan bread much more dense and gummy. Nut-Free – Swap the peanut butter for tahini or sunflower seed butter. Swap the almond milk for oat milk or soy milk. Oil-Free – I didn’t try an oil-free version of this bread. You might want to try plant-based yogurt or more unsweetened applesauce. I suspect this will make the bread ultra-moist and a bit too soft to hold its shape, as well as in my pictures. Sugar-Free – Use a sugar-free crystal sweetener like allulose and sugar-free chocolate chips. Flour – This recipe won’t work with almond flour or coconut flour. You can try spelt flour or white whole wheat as a swap to all-purpose flour.
Here are my answers to all your questions about this avocado chocolate bread recipe.
More Avocado Desserts
If you like this recipe, you’ll love these other dessert recipes with avocado: