Banana and chocolate cakes
These tasty cakes are a great way to use up any over ripe bananas
Banana & chocolate cakes
Ingredients
- 75 g light muscovado sugar
- 100 ml vegetable oil
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 banana, mashed
- 125 g self raising flour
- 15 g cocoa powder
To decorate
- 50 g white chocolate, broken into pieces
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°c. Place 12 paper cases in a 12 hole cake tin.
- Put the sugar and oil in a mixing bowl and whisk together. Add the eggs and whisk again until smooth.
- Add the banana, flour and cocoa powder and whisk until just mixed.
- Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake for 10-12mins until the cakes are well risen and the tops spring back when pressed in the middle. Leave to cool in the tray.
- In the meantime, put the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of simmering water, stirring regularly until it has melted.
- Transfer the cakes to a plate and then drizzle the chocolate all over the top with a teaspoon.