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Triple Chocolate Banana Cake

Makes a 9x5 loaf pan
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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Chocolate banana cake
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup good quality cocoa powder I used valrhona
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp espresso powder optional
  • 1 cup mashed ripe banana about 3 medium banana or 2 large
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup greek yoghurt or plain yoghurt
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
  • 1 cup semi sweet mini chocolate chips
Ganache
  • 100 g dark chocolate chopped
  • 100 ml heavy cream

Method
 

Chocolate banana cake
  1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
  2. Grease and flour your loaf pan.
  3. In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, and salt.
  4. In another bowl, whisk together sugar, oil, yoghurt, bananas, egg, and vanilla.
  5. Add dry ingredients into wet, and mix until just combined.
  6. Fold in chocolate chips.
  7. Bake for 55-60 minutes or until skewer comes out mostly clean or with few moist crumbs.
  8. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before unmoulding and cool completely on wire rack.
Ganache
  1. In a sauce pan, bring cream to a simmer.
  2. Then remove from heat and add chocolate.
  3. Allow to stand for a minute or two, then whisk until combined and smooth.
  4. Cool ganache completely for it to thicken before drizzling over cake.

Notes

Adapted from Liv for Cake