Double Chocolate Banana Loaf

Double Chocolate Banana Loaf

I’m always looking for new recipes to use overripe bananas; my children are very fussy and won’t eat them once they have any black speckles on the skin.  This cake is moist, tasty and quick to make.

Banana and Chocolate Loaf

I’ve discovered two things whilst writing this blog;

1. It is much harder than I thought to take good photos of food – especially with a ‘point and click camera’ and on dark evenings when the kitchen is poorly lit
2. Most cake/biscuit/bread recipes are very similar – does that make the blog boring?

Any variety of cake made with banana and chocolate is a favourite of one of my boys which is a good things as we often have overripe bananas in the fruit bowl that no one will eat!

Banana and Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake

I made this cake to use up some bananas that no one would eat as they were a bit overripe.

First I mashed the bananas and then added plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, sugar, butter and eggs and beat the mixture until it was smooth.

I then chopped some chocolate – which I always do instead of using chocolate chips as it is cheaper – and stirred them in.

I poured the batter into a lined loaf tin – the one I used was a bit big for the amount of mixture I made so the cake ended up quite flat – and baked the cake at a low heat for about 45 minutes.

Unfortunately the chocolate chips sank to the bottom.  I think this was partly due to the fact that I was a bit lazy and didn’t chop the chocolate small enough!  Also tossing the chips in flour first can help to stop them sinking.

Despite the sunken chocolate the cake was delicious and moist.