Chocolate Banana Cake

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Chocolate Banana Cake

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I always end up having a couple of bananas that have gone black and as I hate wasting food (as my waistline confirms :shock: ) I use them for this recipe. It makes a lovely moist cake and is particularly nice when it is still slightly warm and the chocolate is slightly melted

Ingredients

450g SR flour
1 level tsp baking powder
325g soft brown sugar
175g softened butter
3 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
6 ripe bananas (riper the better, they can be black!)
6-8 tbsp milk
200g bar of good quality plain chocolate

Method

Measure flour, baking powder, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract and bananas into a bowl and use a potato masher to squash the mixture all together, mixing it well.

Add enough milk to make a dropping consistency. Cut each of the chocolate squares into 4 - 6 pieces (the easiest way to do this is unwrap the bar on a chopping board, cut along the grooves then keeping it all in place, cut each square into quarters). Stir the chocolate pieces into the mixture.

I line a tin with Bake-O-Glide (because it makes life so much easier when it comes to turning the cake out) then pour the mixture in the tin.

Cook at the centre of a preheated oven for about 45 mins (190 deg C, 375 deg F, Gas Mark 5)

AGA: cook on 3rd set of runners in Baking Oven for aprox 45 Mins


Allow to cool in tin for aprox 20 mins before turning out to cool completely
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Re: Chocolate Banana Cake

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Oops, forgot to add that this recipe comes from Patricia Dunbar, an AGA & Rayburn demonstrator who used to be the Home Economist for Cadbury - what a job! :grin: )
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Re: Chocolate Banana Cake

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Ooooh! will give this a go thanks rotti! :P
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Re: Chocolate Banana Cake

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Sounds good, although I'd have to buy about 30 bananas at once to end up with six over ripe ones in our house! :-)
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Re: Chocolate Banana Cake

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Rotti gave me this recipe a while ago and I made it and it was lovely, even though i made a mistake with the amount of Chocolate and didn't have as much as I needed (due to my not converting grammes to ounces very well :oops: ) It was a lovely cake but I know would have been better with the right amount used. So if your scales are in ounces, make sure you do your conversions properly. Of course, If I had my wits about me, I would have looked at the pack, where it shows the weight in grams. :roll:
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