I had some bananas sitting around and was inspired by a banana sourdough post from Trailrunner. I'd also been itching to make another chocolate sourdough, so I decided to make the two doughs and laminate the two together. I found it pretty hard to develop the gluten in the banana dough (which uses almost no water and just bananas for hydration), so I won't be surprised if this is a dense loaf. One loaf looks quite pretty from the outside, the other is a lovable mutant with bumps and lumps.
| Chocolate Dough | Banana Dough | |
| KABF | 300 | 300 |
| Spelt | 75 | 75 |
| Whole Wheat | 75 | 75 |
| Cocoa powder | 18 | |
| YW Levain | 50 | 50 |
| Levain | 100 | 100 |
| Water | 360 | 30 |
| Ripe Banana Puree | 410 | |
| Salt | 9 | 9 |
| Yogurt | 35 | 35 |
| Date Syrup | 35 | 35 |
| Chocolate Chips | 225 | |
| 12:30 PM | 30 min autolyse | |
| 1:00 PM | add levain - 75 s&f | |
| add salt - 75 s&f | ||
| stretch and fold | ||
| laminate and add chocolate chips | ||
| coil fold | ||
| coil fold | ||
| 7:00 PM | shape | |
| 8:00 AM | bake |


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They look so tempting and I bet they'll taste great.
Benny
Thank you, Benny! Really happy with how this experiment turned out.
Looks delicious... I love the color of your crust. Cut theme open!!! lets see
The crumb is a bit dense, but I think it's okay given that the dough is 40% banana + the cocoa powder. The taste exceeds my expectations! Next time I would try and use a darker cocoa powder so that the lamination is more visible.
I think the crumb is amazing especially since it is 40% banana, I would have expected it to be even more dense. Great job Ilene.
Great experiment.. I wounder if adding 5% of gluten flour could have helped..