Easy cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has sunflower oil, caster sugar, self-raising flour, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa powder, chocolate chip, banana, egg, milk, milk chocolate, soured cream and banana.
Chocolate & banana cake
Course: Easy cake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Soured Cream: 100ml soured cream
- Egg: 3 medium eggs, 2 separated
- Milk: 50ml milk
- Sunflower Oil: 100ml sunflower oil, plus extra to grease
- Caster Sugar: 175g caster sugar
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: half tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Self Raising Flour: 175g self-raising flour
- Cocoa Powder: 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- Banana: 175g very ripe bananas
- Chocolate Chip: 100g chocolate chips or chunks
- Milk Chocolate: 100g milk chocolate
Directions
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
