Chocolate banana cake

Serves:

Serves 8-12

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (125g) butter
• 1 1/2 cups (240g) brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 1/2 cups (225g) self-raising flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup (125ml) milk
• 200g dark chocolate, chopped
• 2 tbsp cream

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease and line a 28cm round cake pan.

Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each. Mix through bananas. Add flour, salt and milk and beat until just combined. Finally, stir through half of the chopped chocolate.

Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake for 45-50 minutes until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Make a quick ganache by placing remaining chocolate and cream in a saucepan over very low heat. Stir until melted and glossy.

Serve cake drizzled with chocolate ganache.

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Serving Suggestions

Note

• Instead of the ganache, you could make a traditional cream cheese frosting.
• Store extra overripe bananas, peeled, in the freezer to use in banana cakes.
• Recipe by Greer Worsley, who blogs at Typically Red.