Layered Banana Chocolate Cake Recipe - Marbled Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe

This is one of the best chocolate banana bread i ever baked. It turned out so moist and chocolaty. This is for all banana and chocolate lover, you can enjoy a piece of plain banana cake and chocolate banana cake as well. You can make it as marbled banana bread as well, check notes.

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I added 1 cup of wheat flour and a 3/4 cup of plain flour. but i am sure the cake will be just perfect with complete wheat flour as well. And the addition of sugar depends on your taste. Try to use a really ripe bananas for the best banana flavour.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Baking Time : 1 hour and 15 mins
Serves: 5 to 6
Recipe Source: Onceuponachef

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 3/4 cup / 210 grams
Baking Soda / Cooking Soda - 3/4 tsp
Salt - 3/4 tsp
Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
Ripe Banana - 1 cup mashed
Unsalted Butter - 1/2 cup / 100 grams
Eggs - 2
Yogurt / Curd - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Dark Chocolate - 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup
Cocoa Powder - 3 tblspn

(My 1 cup measures 240 ml)

Method:

Preheat oven to 170 degree C. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper, grease with oil and set aside.

Take chocolate in a bowl and melt it gently. add cocoa and mix well.

Take flour, baking soda and salt.

Take butter, sugar and vanilla and beat till fluffy.

Add in eggs and beat till creamy. Add banana puree, curd and beat again.

Add in flour and fold gently. Once it is combined, divide it into two bowl.

To one bowl, add in chocolate and fold gently.

Now take the loaf pan, spoon banana batter and then chocolate batter. Spread evenly and bake for 1 hour and 15 mins.

Insert a toothpick to check whether the cake is done, if it comes out clean then it is done.

Remove it from oven, cool it down for 15 mins.

Invert it on a cooling rack and let it cool completely.

Slice and serve.

For Marble Cake:

Spoon the plain batter and chocolate batter alternately into the prepared loaf pan. Swirl the batters together with a knife (don't overdo it or the colors will get muddled -- up and back 4-5 times should suffice). Now bake.

Pictorial:

Preheat oven to 170 degree C. Take your ingredients

Take chocolate in a bowl and melt it gently over a double boiler

now it is all melted

add cocoa powder

mix well

line a loaf pan with parchment paper and grease it well

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take flour in a bowl..you can use wheat flour as well

add baking soda and salt

mix well

take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl

mix till creamy

add eggs

mix again

add banana puree

add yogurt

mix well

add flour mix

fold gently

now it is combined

i made a layered cake, so i spooned half the batter in a pan

to remaining batter, add chocolate mix

fold gently

spoon over it

smooth it

For Marble Cake:
Spoon the plain batter and chocolate batter alternately into the prepared loaf pan. Swirl the batters together with a knife (don't overdo it or the colors will get muddled -- up and back 4-5 times should suffice). Now bake.