Chocolate & Banana Cake

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

• Cooking Time Prep 20 mins
  Cook 1 hr, 15 mins
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Makes 1 large loaf cake

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  502

• Protein

  7g

• Carbs

  63g

• Fat

  27g

• Saturates

  9g

• Fibre

  2g

• Sugar

  43g

• Salt

  0.51g

Ingredients

• 100ml sunflower oil, plus extra to grease
• 175g caster sugar
• 175g self-raising flour
• half 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

Directions

1. 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.
2. 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.
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.

Categories: Chocolate, Fruit