chocolate chip banana cake

FIL grinned when I told him what I had done with the leftover bananas that were already overripe.

Yes, you guessed it correctly. I baked a cake using the overripe bananas.

As I intended to add chocolate chips to the cake, I decided to add brown sugar instead of castor sugar, so that the cake would not be too sweet. Also, the inclusion of the brown sugar would give the cake a brownish colour.

INGREDIENTS

5 overripe medium-sized bananas

3 1/2 cups plain flour

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp ground cinnamon

2 cups brown sugar

1/2 tsp banana essence

1/3 cup water

1 cup sunflower oil

3 eggs

1 cup chocolate chips

additional chocolate chips (for topping)

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.

2. Grease and flour a 9" round cake pan. Set aside.

3. Mash the bananas in a bowl using a fork. Set aside.

4. Sift the plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and ground cinnamon in a bowl. Set aside.

5. Mix the brown sugar, banana essence, water and oil in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well with each addition.

6. Fold in the flour mixture using a wooden spatula and mix until the flour mixture disappears.

7. Stir in the chocolate chips.

8. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

9. Top with additional chocolate chips.

10. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.