Whole & Healthy Chocolate Avocado Bread - High Protein

Moist, tender and decadent, this Chocolate Avocado Bread is a delicious breakfast loaf that's actually healthy and high protein too. Made with mashed avocado, whole wheat flour and protein powder, its full of good fats, fiber and no sugar!

This recipe was half inspired by my Avocado Bread recipe - a quick bread made with avocado so is kind of like a banana bread without banana. 

The second half was my sister who asked me whether I had a recipe for a chocolate avo bread. And that's all I needed to get started.

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Baking with Avocado

You can mash the avo like you do nanas, but it isn't as mushy, so you need to add some milk in there to get that moistness going.

There's 2 big benefits of using avocado as a substitute for banana:

• Its got a high amount of healthy fats in it already, so you don't need to add in that much in the batter.
• Its vitrually sugar-free! The fruit in itself has negligible amount of sweetness, so by adding natural no-sugar sweetener like stevia, you get the sugary-effect without the sugar.

The downside though, is that you need to add more sweetener to the batter, or it'll taste like... nothing! Just trashy unsweetened cocoa.

My solution?
1. Llinea Monk Fruit Sweetener! All the sweetness without the "sugar".
2. Read on.

Baking with Protein Powder

While I do use whole wheat flour in the bread to keep it healthy, I push it one step further by replacing some of it with protein powder.

This cuts down some of the calories, a lot of the carbs, and also adds some sweetness in!

I used a vanilla-flavored protein powder here from Quest Nutrition, which adds to some of the sweetness in the recipe too. A chocolate would work great here too. 

Not all PPs are sweet though and there's a lot of brands (Quest Multipurpose) that have developed neutral protein powders just for the purpose of using them in recipes. Make sure to add some more sweetener if you use one of those.

Chocolate!

I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner; Chocolate really does make everything better.

I use Unsweetened Cocoa powder here - the one from Trader Joe's, but any good quality one will work.

Just noticed that this has a fair amount of fiber too, this loaf really couldn't get healthier now could it?!

You can't just add it in to a recipe though. The right way is by dropping an equal amount of flour to match the amount of cocoa you add. And then also dropping some of the acidity ingredient (baking powder here) since the cocoa itself is acidic. 

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Taste?

Perfectly super moist and chocolatey.

Most of my chocolate baked goods have a darker flavor, but this one was more of a normal chocolate quick bread. 

All in all, divine!

Little sis really should ask me for more baked goods!

Looking for more chocolate & avocado baked goods?

• Super Delicious Avocado Quick Bread (Sugar-Free)
• Chocolate Avocado Brownie Pops
• Double Chocolate Avocado Muffins (Keto, Low-Carb, Paleo)