Sunday 1 February 2015

Banana Hazelnut Chocolate Cake




* easy to make and will surely satisfy your baking & snacking desire! Pls try!

Ingredients:
110g butter - melted
3 bananas - ripe ones, and mashed with a fork
2 eggs
110g maple syrup
85g caster sugar
250g plain flour - sifted
1/4 tsp salt
2tsp baking powder
85g hazelnuts - gently chopped or pulsed in food processor (or you can always use almonds or omit nuts altogether)
60g chocolate chips

How to Make:
1. Preheat oven to 160'C.

2. Grease a 32 x 12cm loaf tin with little butter then line it up with baking paper.

3. Put mash bananas in a mixing bowl. Add melted butter, eggs and maple syrup and mix well with the fork until the eggs are really well broken up.

4. Mix the sifted flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in another bowl, then add to the banana mixture. Using a spatula, fold in flour mixture to make a smooth batter. Lastly, fold in nuts and chocolate chips, saving some as toppings though.

5. Pour cake batter to tin. Gently tap it a few times to make batter even on the lid. Sprinkle remaining nuts and chocolate chips on top of cake batter and bake in over for 1 hr 10 minutes or until cake if golden and skewer comes out clean. Best to put it in the bottom 1/3 of the oven.

Enjoy with a warm of tea!