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Chocolate, Coconut & Almond Bread

This Chocolate Coconut Almond Bread, a quick bread, is wonderful for snacking or gifting (think holidays, housewarming, or a hostess gift). The almond bread is sprinkled with sweet coconut and studded with semi-sweet chocolate chips - a sweet breakfast or afternoon snack.

Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 10 servings
Author Liz

Ingredients

  • 9 Tbs. unsalted butter divided
  • 2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour plus more for flouring pan
  • 3/4 c. granulated sugar
  • 1 Tbs. baking powder
  • 3/4 tsp. salt
  • 1 c. unsweetened coconut milk
  • 2 large eggs at room temperature
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp. almond extract
  • 1 c. sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
  • 3/4 c. semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/3 - 1/2 c. slivered almonds

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F.

  2. In a small bowl, melt 8 Tbs. (1 stick) of butter. Allow to cool.
  3. Using 1 Tbs. butter, grease bottom and sides of a 9x5 inch loaf pan (if your butter isn't softened, you can melt it and grease the pan that way). Sprinkle with a little flour on bottom and sides of buttered pan, tapping pan to move around flour, ensuring that pan is completely covered. Tap out excess flour over the sink. Set aside.

  4. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, whisk together coconut milk, eggs, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Add toasted coconut and chocolate chips and stir until all ingredients are fulling incorporated.

  5. Pour milk mixture and melted butter over dry ingredients and briefly stir with a rubber spatula until most of the wet ingredients are incorporated.

  6. Pour batter into prepared pan and top with slivered almonds.

  7. Bake for 45-60 minutes, until top is golden and a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Remove from pan and return to rack to cool completely.

Recipe Notes

Recipe makes 1 standard sized loaf, or about 10 slices.