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Chocolate Banana Cake

photo by Billy Green





- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup margarine
- 1 3⁄4 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1⁄4 cups mashed bananas
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 3⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup sour milk (put 1 tbsp. of vinegar in 3/4 measuring cup, fill with skim milk)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream margarine with sugar and eggs.
- Mix in banana and vanilla.
- Mix flour with remaining dry ingredients.
- Add flour mixture to margarine mixture in 3 parts, alternately with sour milk.
- Begin and end with flour.
- Spread in 2 greased 8" cake pans.
- Bake in oven about 40 minutes.
- When cool, frost generously with chocolate butter frosting.
Questions & Replies

Reviews
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Excellent cake. I used a Dutch Process cocoa, added pecans, and baked it in a Bundt pan for 50 minutes. It was rich and moist enough to need no frosting. I will definitely use this recipe many times in the future. I might try it with dried cherries added. I'm also thinking of using a brown sugar-butter-pecan streusel mix in the bottom of a Bundt pan before adding the batter.
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I was looking for recipes to use up my sour milk and came upon this one. I was a little hesitate that it would taste too banana-y but it really didn't. The bananas really give it a nice moistness. The only change I made to the recipe was to use real butter instead of the margarine. I baked it in a 9 x 13-inch pan and frosted it with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe #107376) . Yum! Nice combo.<br/>Thanks for sharing this recipe!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Debbb
Canada
I am a 38 year old married woman. I have been cooking and baking since I was 10 years old. I long ago mastered the art of making something taste good & I am now working hard at perfecting the presentation aspect of food. I took a cake decorating course nearly 3 years ago which gave me lots of great ideas.