Danish Banana Cake with Chocolate
Delicious and easy-to-make Danish banana cake with dark chocolate. This cake has a fantastic combination between the bananas and the dark chocolate which gives a wonderful taste. Banana cake just like it is done in Denmark!
Servings: 8 people
Ingredients
- 3 egg
- 150 g sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar / essence
- 125 g all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 g melted and cooled butter
- 2 bananas mashed (use frozen bananas if you have some)
- 50 g dark chocolate/ (or chocolate chips)
Topping
- 100 g melted dark chocolate
Instructions
- Whisk egg, sugar and vanilla sugar together into a light and fluffy mixture.
- In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder together.
- In 3-4 steps gently mix the flour and melted butter with the batter, mix them alternately.
- Mashed the bananas and mix them with the batter.
- Coarsely chop the chocolate and mix it with the batter.
- Grease a bread tin with butter or lined it with baking paper. Pour the batter into the bread tin. The volume of the bread tin should be around 1 liter (1/4 gal).
- Bake the cake at a low position in the oven. Bake it a 175 C (350 F) for about 40 minutes.
- When the cake is done, remove it from the bread tin and let it cool off.
- Melt the chocolate and pour it over the cooled cake. Use a knife to spread it around.
Notes
Keep the cake in a bag - this will keep it nice and moist.