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!
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!