I had two overripe blackened bananas and was wondering how to use them up. A favorite neighborhood café of ours, Roastery serves a very yummy banana square that we both enjoy a lot. So I thought, why not bake a banana loaf cake a.k.a banana bread. But I wanted it to be chocolaty too. So is it okay to mix banana and chocolate?
Yes. Chocolate and bananas together is a combination made in heaven. They go beautifully together in deserts.
Why is my banana loaf rubbery?
Overbeating the banana cake dough may cause gluten development and deactivate the baking powder. So make sure to divide your baking powder into two parts to avoid a rubbery banana loaf.
How to keep banana loaf moist?
To make a moist loaf cake, you need to have the right balance of dry and wet ingredients. Also covering the loaf tin with a foil in the last 10 minutes.
Ingredients
Oat flour 1 cup (100gms)
APF ½ cup.
Melted dark chocolate 50gms
Eggs 2 nos
Overripe banana 2 nos.
Baking powder 1.5 tsp
Baking vinegar ½ tsp
Pink Salt ¼ tsp
Olive oil ½ cup(50 ml)
Butter 50gms
Almond Milk ½ cup
Date palm jaggery ½ cup
Dates 8 to 10
Roasted chopped walnuts (optional)
Method
Soak and deseed the dates and coarsely blend.
Add in the overripe bananas and blend to a paste.
Beat the eggs till frothy. Add in the olive oil and melted buttet slowly to get a creamy/silky texture of the eggs.
Boil the almond milk with the jaggery and cool down to a temperature at which you can dip your finger.
Add the melted dark chocolate to the eggs. Mix it in well. Then mix in the banana and dates puree.
Sieve in the oats flour( I pulverize rolled oats at home), flour, salt and 1 tsp of the baking powder.
Mix well and add in the almond milk- jaggery mixture. Add the remaining ½ tsp baking powder
Preheat the oven to 180 degree C
Beat the batter to get a uniform consistency.
Pour the batter into a greased and paper lined loaf tin.
Bake the loaf in the pre- heated oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Delicious, healthy , chocolate banana loaf cake is ready to be sliced and enjoyed with tea or coffee or by itself.
This post is part of #BlogchatterA2Z challenge and this is the Y– post.
