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Chocolate and banana loaf cake, topped with banana chips

Chocolate & banana cake

Name: Chocolate & banana cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: Makes 1 large loaf cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100ml sunflower oil plus extra to grease; 175g caster sugar; 175g self-raising flour; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 4 tbsp cocoa powder; 100g chocolate chips or chunks; 175g very ripe bananas; 3 medium eggs 2 separated; 50ml milk; 100g milk chocolate; 100ml soured cream; handful dried banana chips roughly chopped

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Makes 1 large loaf cake

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 15 mins

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This decadent chocolate and banana loaf cake is gorgeously moist from the fruit, whilst chocolate adds richness. Top with ganache and banana chips.

Freezable (Freeze un-iced only)

Nut-free

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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100ml sunflower oil

plus extra to grease
175g caster sugar
175g self-raising flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 tbsp cocoa powder
100g chocolate chips

or chunks
175g very ripe bananas
3 medium eggs

2 separated
50ml milk

For the topping

100g milk chocolate
100ml soured cream
handful dried banana chips

roughly chopped

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Nutrition: per slice

kcal502
fat27g
saturates9g
carbs63g
sugars43g
fibre2g
protein7g
salt0.51g

low

Method

step 1

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.
step 2

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.
step 3

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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2011

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