Banana and Chocolate Chip Cake

Name: Banana and Chocolate Chip Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: juice of 1 lime; 340 g (11¾ oz) soft light brown sugar; 1 tsp baking powder; 225 g (8 oz) plain flour, sifted; 35 g (1¼ oz) chocolate chips; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; dried banana chips or roughly chopped pecans, to decorate; 25 g (1 oz) pecans, roughly chopped; 170 g (5¾ oz) unsalted butter, slightly softened; 115 g (4 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for the tin; 140 g (5 oz) soft light brown sugar; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; zest of 1 unwaxed orange, finely grated; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; 3 ripe bananas, mashed; 4 tbsp soured cream

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

What is better than banana cake? Banana cake with chocolate! This is fabulously moist - do use very ripe bananas - and moreish. If you don’t want the buttercream., just dust the top with icing sugar.

Ingredients

115 g (4 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for the tin
140 g (5

Americas
Dessert
Drinks
Caribbean
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Butter a 20 × 13 cm (8 × 5 in