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chocolate banana cake
chocolate banana cake

MOIST CHOCOLATE BANANA CAKE

This incredibly moist and delicious Chocolate Banana Cake recipe is loaded with double chocolate (cocoa+chocolate chunks), overriped bananas and beyond easy!
If you have overriped black bananas at home, please do not throw it away but make this cake: it's best than a classic Banana Bread and the perfect treat for chocolate lovers!
You need just one bowl and a whisk to make this cake, no hand mixer is required.
This cake keep its moisture for days and it's delicious served warm with some ice cream on top: absolutely irresistible!
Since this cake has a strong chocolate flavor, if you're not a fan of chocolate, you should try my Best Banana Bread recipe, believe me, you won't regret it!
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 45 mins
Total Time 1 hr 5 mins
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Servings 12 Servings
Calories 258 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 3-4 (350 g) overriped bananas
  • 150 g (3/4 cup) dark brown sugar brown sugar or white sugar works well too
  • 90 g (1/2 cup) vegetable oil use a vegetable oil without flavor, like sunflower, peanut, canola oil...
  • 2 eggs at room temperature
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 190 g (1+2/3 cup) all purpose flour
  • 8 g (2 tsp) baking powder
  • 40 g (1/3 cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 90 g (2/3 cup) chocolate chunks

Instructions
 

  • Mash peeled bananas with a fork or a potato masher until creamy and smooth.
  • In a large bowl mix together bananas, brown sugar, vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla until well combined.
  • Sift in flour, pinch of salt, cocoa powder and baking powder: mix with a whisk until creamy and well combined without overmixing.
  • Fold in chocolate chips.
  • Transfer the batter into a lined loaf pan (26x10x7cm/10x4x3inch - 1kg/2pounds).
  • Bake in preheated oven (fan on, upper+lower heat) at 180°C-350°F for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
    If you bake in an oven without fan, you may need 10 minutes more for baking.
  • Slightly cool down in the pan, then unmold and cool down onto a wire rack before slice and serve it.

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Notes

Store at room temperature wrapped in plastic wrap for up to 2-3 days.
Store in refrigerator for 1 week.
Store the slices in freezer for up to 3 months.
It's delicious served slightly warm with vanilla ice cream on top!

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Tips:

chocolate banana cake

If you have some overriped black bananas in your kitchen and you are thinking to throw them away, please do not! 

Overriped bananas are perfect for baking goods like Banana Bread or this amazing Chocolate Banana Cake: they give an incredible sweet banana flavor to your treat!

chocolate banana cake

This recipe is incredibly easy to make, you need just a bowl and a whisk!

I just suggest you to DO NOT mix too much the ingredients, mostly when you add flour into the batter. You just need to mix the batter when it’s well combined, without overmixing: so you’ll get a perfect moist and soft cake texture.

banana bread

If you’re not a chocolate lover and you’re looking for the best classic Banana Bread recipe, you should try my Best Banana Bread: believe me, you won’t regret it!

chocolate banana cake

I thought this cake recipe for chocolate lover, so the cocoa amount is perfect if you love very chocolaty flavor dessert.

If you prefer chocolate cakes more delicate in cocoa flavor, you can use only 30 g of cocoa powder and 200 g of flour instead of 190 g.

I only used 150 g of brown sugar because there is a huge amount of bananas in this cake, and you know that bananas are very sweet! But if you prefer more sweet desserts, you can use 160-170 g of brown sugar to get a more sweet cake.

chocolate banana cake