Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe

We came back from our trip last week, armed with delicious chocolate cake baked by my cousin. The only problem was that it got over all too soon, and left the boys craving for more. I remembered some over-ripe bananas I had frozen sometime back and decided to make this chocolate banana bread.

Well, it’s a pretty easy recipe to follow, except I didn’t have enough white flour or chocolate chips. So, I modified the recipe a bit and decided to make my own version instead. It turned out surprisingly well (even if I do say so myself) ;). Here’s the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup white flour
• 3/4 cup wheat flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 3 bananas
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Mash the bananas with a fork and keep aside.
2. Dump all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix them together. I used a whisk to mix the 2 types of flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together until they were well combined.
3. Mix the wet ingredients together in another bowl. I used a hand mixer to combine the eggs, butter, mashed bananas and vanilla extract.
4. Add the dry ingredient mixture to the wet ingredients and combine until you get a thick batter.
5. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees (centigrade).
6. Prepare a baking pan by greasing it with butter and sprinkling a little flour over it.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 40-50 minutes.
8. The cake is ready when a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

There you have it – a simple dessert or evening snack made in little over an hour. If you do try out this recipe, let me know how it turns out!