I haven’t done a making stuff post for a while, but two are probably going to come along at once.
The first week of February was Children’s Mental Health week in the UK and so school gave us two Zoom free days. Mostly, that meant the boys watched a lot of TV and played on their screens with a little bit of mindful colouring. At the same point though, we were suffering from a serious banana backlog. Some how we had a whole mountain of them that were rather brown and himself and large boy were refusing to eat them.
There’s only one reasonable solution to that sort of problem: cake.
Recipe
I don’t hold with babbling on about ingredients, techniques or why a recipe is a good idea before diving straight in, so here it is: BBC Good Food Chocolate Banana Cake.
Ingredients
- 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
For the topping
- 100g milk chocolate
- 100ml soured cream
- handful dried banana chips, roughly chopped
Method
- STEP 1
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 (or with my bonkers oven gas 4). Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment (allow it to come 2cm above top of tin, seriously you’re going to need that frilly bit). Mix the sugar, flour, bicarb, cocoa and chocolate in a large bowl. If a small child does this, clean up the fine powder covering all the surfaces. - STEP 2
Mash the bananas in a bowl and stir in the whole egg plus 2 yolks, followed by the oil and milk. Ignore the fact that it looks “like a big pile of sick” (according to small boy). 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. - STEP 3
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 or white chocolate chips.
The results
Well frankly, it was delicious. Small boy is well known for his aversion to anything with any sort of icing (butter, royal, cream cheese are all rejected), but he loved this. I was a bit concerned about how well it would keep with sour cream out of the fridge, but I needn’t have worried it was all gone in 48 hours.
Thanks for sharing, this looks very yummy 🙂
Nic | Nic’s Adventures & Bakes
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Wow, that looks amazing
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It was very tasty
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Looks so good!
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It looks delicious! I can’t wait to try this recipe out!
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This looks so yummy!
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Hahah I
Love the way you don’t “babble on a lot about recipes and techniques” that sort of thing drives me nuts when I’m trying to get to the recipe that I gave just googled up – this looks good, my oven which has been on the blink for over twelve months is being replaced Monday so I’m busting to try some baking …then again it is dangerous as then I have to try the baking by eating it and then my ass expands – which is why I wasn’t a rush to fix the oven when it broke . Crap I’m babbling – sorry.
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😆 babbling in comments is allowed. Yeah I’ve been baking a lot this half term, I don’t want to get on the scales….
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Oooh this sounds like a great recipe! I don’t think I’ve ever actually made a banana cake before (no clue how that’s happened!) so I’ll have to try this out 🙂 x
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Oh do give it a go and let me know what you think xx
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This looks delicious! I love banana bread so I imagine I would LOVE a chocolate banana cake!
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It is really yummy xx
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I love chocolate banana bread, I think I’ve used that recipe before and it’s really good.
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Fabulous!
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That looks absolutely amazing. I cannot wait for Easter to enjoy it. On my list of recipes to make.
I give up chocolate for lent, and I am drooling all over your pictures at the moment.
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Oh do give it a try! I hope you enjoy it, when you’re back eating chocolate. x
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OMG, my stomach just wants to dive into my screen now to eat that banana cake of yours. Haha, it looks SO good, I definitely want to try it out~ Thanks for sharing!
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Ha ha it was really good
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This looks AMAZING!! I will definitely be trying it out!
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It was so so good.
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Oh, wow this looks amazing — I can just about smell its deliciousness!
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Thanks, it was delicious
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Looks delicious
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This looks super yummy! You can’t beat a banana loaf cake, especially with a hot drink x
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Or at any time really 😆
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It looks amazing! I have to try it 🙂
All the best, Michelle (michellesclutterbox.com)
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It was so easy as well
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This looks amazing! I love chocolate and bananas together, so I’m sure I’d love this cake!
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This looks so yummy!! Thanks for sharing the recipe. I can’t wait to try it!
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Mmmm I love the look of the gooey icing. I’m glad small boy enjoyed despite his usual aversion to icing. I’m with you in not liking banana bread but chocolate banana cake sounds pretty tasty, and reasonably healthy. xx
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Absolutely, it had fruit in it. If you eat 1/3 of a cake that’s roughly one banana so one of your 5 a day. Right?
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Looks delicious does that smell. I am quite partial to a banana cake
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Banana cake with chocolate is SO much better 😉
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May just have to give that a try
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This looks soo delish!! I love chocolate and all I want to do is bake right now!
Rosie
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This business of baking a cake every week is having a direct effect on the size of my bum 😄
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Looks fantastic. I have a recipe for chocolate chip banana muffins I haven’t made in a while. It might be time to make some.
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It was so tasty and moist.
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These look delicious! I can’t agree more with small boy, chocolate does make everything better! Thanks for sharing x
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That looks great and simple to make x
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Omg looks totally delicious. It wouldn’t last 48 minutes in our house let alone 48 hours!
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It is really yummy
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Ok that looks absolutely amazing. I’m going to try it out. The fact that it’s 3 steps gives me hope that I can’t mess it up too badly.
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Its lovely and moist inside too
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This looks amazing: I must try it! But I fear I would eat it all myself 🙊
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Yes that is the danger
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