Chocolate Banana Cake |
You can bake this in round pans if you like, with the simple chocolate buttercream frosting as shown or just in a 9x13 baking pan and serve frosted or unfrosted as an easy snack cake.
Chocolate Banana Cake
Chocolate Banana Cake - a terrific recipe to use up those speckled, over ripe bananas on your counter top in a moist, delicious dessert cake.
Cook time: 35 minutes
Total time: 50 minutes
Yield: 12-16 servings
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup good quality cocoa
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cups mashed banana mashed banana
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease two 9 inch cake pans well and dust with cocoa. (Or you can line the pans with parchment paper after greasing them.)
- Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside.
- Cream together the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Mix in the banana and vegetable oil.
- Mix together the lemon juice and milk to sour it.
- Fold in the dry ingredients alternately with the soured milk beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. I add the dry ingredients in 3 portions and the soured milk in 2 portions.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans and bake for 35-45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
- Cool completely on a wire rack before icing with your favorite chocolate frosting.
Chocolate Banana Cake |
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