Preheat and prepare the tin

• Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
• Grease a loaf tin.

Mash the bananas

• Place the ripe bananas in a mixing bowl and mash them with a fork until smooth.

Mix in the butter and dry basics

• Stir in the melted butter and mix again.
• Mix in the baking soda and salt.

Add the wet ingredients

• Mix in the sugar, beaten egg, almond milk and vanilla extract until combined.

Add the protein powder and flour

• Add the protein powder and flour.
• Mix until just combined, without over mixing.

Fold in the chocolate

• Fold the chopped chocolate chunks into the batter.

Bake

• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin.
• Bake until a toothpick or skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean; a few dry crumbs are fine.

Cool and store

• Let the banana bread cool before slicing.
• Keep tightly wrapped to keep it fresh.