Chocolate Banana Cake

Chocolate Banana Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• ¾ cup good quality cocoa
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ cup butter
• 1½ cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 1¼ cups mashed banana mashed banana
• ¾ cup milk
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease two 9 inch cake pans well and dust with cocoa. (Or you can line the pans with parchment paper after greasing them.)
3. Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside.
4. Cream together the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
5. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
6. Mix in the banana and vegetable oil.
7. Mix together the lemon juice and milk to sour it.
8. Fold in the dry ingredients alternately with the soured milk beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. I add the dry ingredients in 3 portions and the soured milk in 2 portions.
9. Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans and bake for 35-45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
10. Cool completely on a wire rack before icin

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