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Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe

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 Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe with chocolate chips, frosted with chocolate cream cheese icing. An easy and healthy moist chocolate cake.

  • Author: FillMyRecipeBook
  • Prep Time: 20 min
  • Cook Time: 50 min
  • Total Time: 70 min
  • Category: Cakes desserts
  • Method: Oven Baking
  • Cuisine: South african

Ingredients

  1. 2 Cups [400g]of brown sugar
  2. 2/3 cup of cream.
  3. 2 eggs
  4. 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
  5. 2 1/2 cups of flour
  6. 2/3 cup of cocoa
  7. 2 teaspoon of baking powder
  8. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
  9. 2 Cups of mashed over ripe bananas
  10. 1 teaspoon of Himalayan salt
  11. 1 Cup of chocolate chips

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

  1. 4 oz of cream cheese (room temperature)
  2. 1/4 cup of unsalted soft butter
  3. 1 cups of castor or powdered sugar (melts easier)
  4. 1 tsp of vanilla essence
  5. 1/2 cup of cocoa powder

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 Deg. C (350 Deg. F)
  2. Grease a roasting pan with spray and cook or butter and place a wax proof sheet of paper over the bottom and spray and cook that. Leave aside for the cake mix.
  3. In a large bowl add the wet ingredients such as the sugar, cream and eggs and vanilla and mix with a mixer until all is combined.
  4. Then sieve the flour cocoa and baking powder and baking soda and salt.
  5. Mash your bananas to make 2 whole cups.
  6. Mix together the wet and dry ingredients then the banana. Add the chocolate chips and then pour the cake batter into the greased and lined roasting pan.
  7. Bake in the oven for 50 minutes, until tested cooked with a clean knife.
  8. Let cool for 5 minutes then turn out on a cooler rack and remove the wax paper. leave to cool.
  9. Make the chocolate cream cheese icing.
  10. Mix all the cream cheese until smooth and then slowly add in  the castor sugar, Cocoa and butter and vanilla essence. It so delicious.
  11. Mix until a good consistency has been achieved. Leave to cool in the fridge if needed.
  12. I kept this cream cheese icing in the fridge for a while.

Notes

This chocolate cream cheese frosting lasts a long time kept sealed in the back of the fridge where it gets very cold. Take out and bring to room temperature to frost your cakes.