Chocolate banana zucchini cake
Chocolate Banana Zucchini Cake is a delicious dessert that combines flavors of chocolate, banana, and zucchini. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is suitable for those following a vegetarian diet and is perfect to make for a special occasion or holiday.
Ingredients
unsalted butter
0.5 cup
flour
2 cups
cocoa powder
0.5 cup
baking powder
1 tsp
salt
0.5 tsps
brown sugar
1 cup
sugar
4 Tbsps
vanilla extract
1 tsp
instant coffee powder
1 tsp
free range eggs
2 large
courgettes
1 cup
banana
1 large
dark chocolate chips
1 cup
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 10-inch cake or springform pan with oil.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In a food processor, process the sugar and butter until creamy. You can also do this by hand using a sturdy spatula.
- Add the vanilla essence, coffee granules and eggs mixing well between each addition.
- Reserve a cup of the flour mixture and add the rest to the egg mixture.
- Mix until just combined. The batter will be thick.
- Add the mashed banana and mix. Don't overmix.The batter will be lumpy.
- Add the zucchini and chocolate chips to the reserved flour mixture and toss to coat.
- Fold into the batter and blend with a spatula- don't overmix.
- Pour into the prepared cake pan and level the surface with a spatula.
- Bake for 40-50 min, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let it cool for 10 min, run a knife around the pan to loosen the cake and take the cake out carefully on the cooling rack.
- Let it come to room temperature.
- Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar or glaze with melted chocolate.
Nutrition:
Carbs
116 g
Fat
20 g
Protein
8 g
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