Double Chocolate Banana Snack Cake

photo by berry271



- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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1 8inch cake
ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup mashed ripe banana
- 1⁄3 cup butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3⁄4 cup mini chocolate chips or 3/4 cup regular chocolate chips
directions
- Mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
- Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients.
- Add milk, banana, butter, lemon juice and vanilla.
- Beat with a fork till well blended, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Pour into greased 9-inch square cake pan.
- Bake in preheated 350F oven 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centre of cake comes out clean.
- Cool completely and cut into squares.
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Reviews
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I'm giving this five stars because it's a great basic recipe. I read all the reviews prior to my first attempt...so I added one egg to the mix to help avoid the dryness complaint. I also used two small bananas-not bothering to measure but I'm sure it was a bit more than the 1/2 C. called for. I think the most significant switch I made was using buttermilk instead of regular milk! (This also allowed me to slightly decrease the baking soda.) I used an 8x8 pan and the taste and texture of this cake was phenomenal! (I omitted the lemon juice, too) I wish I had more "dying" bananas so I could make it again right now!
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Nice cake! Reminds me of my Chocolate Zucchini Cake (Recipe # 430418), but with bananas instead of zucchini. Nice alternative to making banana bread every time you have bananas to use up. I used spelt flour and almond milk to suit our dietary needs and it turned out fine and very moist. Next time I may try subbing the applesauce for the butter as others suggested. I did only bake this for 30 minutes and it was done in that time.<br/>NOTE: Today I used applesauce instead of the butter and it worked out well. I also chose to make it into mini muffins this time. I baked them at 350 for about 8 minutes. I got about 5 dozen mini muffins.
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Nice cake! Reminds me of my Chocolate Zucchini Cake (Recipe # 430418), but with bananas instead of zucchini. Nice alternative to making banana bread every time you have bananas to use up. I used spelt flour and almond milk to suit our dietary needs and it turned out fine and very moist. Next time I may try subbing the applesauce for the butter as others suggested. I did only bake this for 30 minutes and it was done in that time.<br/>NOTE: Today I used applesauce instead of the butter and it worked out well. I also chose to make it into mini muffins this time. I baked them at 350 for about 8 minutes. I got about 5 dozen mini muffins.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Deb Guglietti
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