CHOCOLATE & BANANA CAKE

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Just one look at this chocolate and banana treat is enough to know it won't stay in the cake tin for long

Provided by Good Food team

Categories     Dessert, Dinner, Supper

Time 1h35m

Yield Makes 1 large loaf cake

Number Of Ingredients 12

100ml sunflower oil, plus extra to grease
175g caster sugar
175g self-raising flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 tbsp cocoa powder
100g chocolate chips or chunks
175g very ripe bananas
3 medium eggs, 2 separated
50ml milk
100g milk chocolate
100ml soured cream
handful dried banana chips, roughly chopped

Steps:

  • Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment (allow it to come 2cm above top of tin). Mix the sugar, flour, bicarb, cocoa and chocolate in a large bowl.
  • Mash the bananas in a bowl and stir in the whole egg plus 2 yolks, followed by the oil and milk. Beat the egg whites until stiff. Quickly stir the wet banana mixture into the dry ingredients, stir in a quarter of the egg whites to loosen the mixture, then gently fold in the rest. Gently scrape into the tin and bake for 1 hr 10-15 mins, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
  • Cool in the tin on a wire rack. To make the icing, melt the chocolate and soured cream together in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Chill in the fridge until spreadable. Remove cake from tin, roughly swirl icing over and scatter with the banana chips.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 502 calories, Fat 27 grams fat, SaturatedFat 9 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 63 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 43 grams sugar, Fiber 2 grams fiber, Protein 7 grams protein, Sodium 0.51 milligram of sodium

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