I had three very ripe bananas which had reached the point of no return, and I was contemplating their fate, when a Chocolate and Banana Snacking Cake recipe popped up in my feed. Now if it wasn’t a divine sign, I don’t know what is. What caught my eye was the name which I thought was Smacking Banana Cake. My dirty mind went to overdrive and I had to check out the recipe. On closer look it was “snacking” not smacking (shame on me and at my age), which is really a simple single layer cake with easy frosting and requires only a handful of ingredients. Easily my kind of cake.

Banana Chocolate Snacking Cake — Banana Cake Silky Cream Cheese Choc Icing & Maltesers Sprinkle

This cake is moist, tender and full of banana flavours and is from King Arthurs Flour Baking. To top it all is a creamy chocolate cream cheese frosting with just the right amount of sweetness and which ticks all the boxes that needs to be ticked in my dream cake. And better still, if you have Easter Eggs that needs using up, you can use them to garnish the finished cake. That’s the Easter part! Feel free to make this at any other time of the year, just substitute the Easter Eggs for Malteaser or any other crushed chocolate of your choice.

What you need for Chocolate and Banana Snacking Cake

Pantry Fridge Ingredients – Butter,Light Brown Sugar,Vanilla (also need some for the Icing) Eggs,Milk,Self Raising Flour and Corn Flour. If you don’t have corn flour, substitute it with self raising flour, it will be fine. It does give the cake a softer crumb.
Bananas – You will need 2 or 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
For the Icing – Cocoa Powder, room temperature butter and cream cheese, Icing sugar/Icing Sugar Mix. If you use pure Icing Sugar make sure to sift it before use, to get rid of the lumps.
Topping/Garnish – Lightly Crushed Malteaser Chocolate Balls or Easter Eggs, Hundreds & Thousands Sprinkle (Optional if you’re serving it to the Young at Hearts)

Easy does it..

Preheat oven to 160°C and line an 8×8 inch square tin( or equivalent volume in a round pan) with baking paper.
Mix together butter sugar and vanilla. You can use a mixer or a wooden spoon for this, this cake is not very precious.
Add eggs and mashed bananas and mix again to combine.
Fold in the flour and milk using a spatula and mix just to combine. Do not overmix.
Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until done.
Cool the cake in tin for 20 or so minutes, then turn out into a cooling rack to cool completely.
Mix together the icing ingredients and use to ice the top of the cake. Don’t bother about the sides, not necessary.
Just before serving decorate the top of the cake with Crushed Malteser Balls and sprinkle with Hundreds and Thousands.