Triple Chocolate Banana Cake
Makes a 9x5 loaf pan
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
Instructions
Chocolate banana cake
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
- Grease and flour your loaf pan.
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together sugar, oil, yoghurt, bananas, egg, and vanilla.
- Add dry ingredients into wet, and mix until just combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes or until skewer comes out mostly clean or with few moist crumbs.
- Cool in pan for 10 minutes before unmoulding and cool completely on wire rack.
Ganache
- In a sauce pan, bring cream to a simmer.
- Then remove from heat and add chocolate.
- Allow to stand for a minute or two, then whisk until combined and smooth.
- Cool ganache completely for it to thicken before drizzling over cake.
Notes
Adapted from Liv for Cake