Chocolate Banana Bundt Cake
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Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon kosher or coarse salt
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 medium ripe bananas, well mashed
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- 1
Gather the ingredients.
- 2
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 9-inch square or round cake tin.
- 3
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
- 4
In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugars with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the vanilla, then beat in the mashed banana.
- 5
Turn the flour mixture into the banana mixture in two batches and stir until just blended. Mix in the chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- 6
Scrape the batter into the pan, smooth the top and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes, until a wooden skewer either comes out clean or with a little bit of melted chocolate from the chips. The top of the cake should feel springy but firm.
- 7
Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out of the pan and finish cooling, upright, on the wire rack.
