Bananna & Chocolate cake

Tonight we had a go at making our first banana cake. We tasted the mixture and thought it tasted too strong, so we added dark chocolate. It was quite a wet mixture and took far longer to bake than I thought it would.

My 6 year old and I made up the recipe as we went along. We used:-

175g caster sugar
175g butter
3 eggs
and mixed it all together. Then
175g self raising flower
2 mashed very ripe bananas
8 chunks of Bournville chocolate all chopped up.

we baked it for 45/55 minutes on 180 (fan assisted).

Yum!

Chocolate chip loaf cake

Last night while they all peacefully slept, I made a chocolate chip loaf cake.

The ingredients are as follows...

225g butter
225g caster sugar
4 medium eggs
225g self raising flower
As many chocolate chunks as you like!
An optional half teaspoon of vanilla essence.

 

For the chocolate, I'd recommend a plain chocolate with at least 70% coco. You need quite a bitter chocolate as this is quite a sweet cake and it will help to balance the flavours.

 

Cream together the butter and sugar, add the beaten eggs, add the flower and then add the chocolate.

 

I use a standard loaf tin with a loaf tin liner. If you don't have a liner, line the tray with baking liner.

 

Spoon the mixture into your loaf tin, bake for 40-50 minutes on 160 (fan assisted) 180 non fan.

 

Check with a knife to ensure the cake is baked through.

 

Then enjoy!