Chocolate & banana cake

600 kcal or less banana bananas bbc good food magazine july bicarbonate of soda cake. pudding caster sugar chocolate chocolate chip chocolate chips cocoa powder desert dessert egg eggs for a crowd loaf mains milk milk chocolate over an hour self-raising flour soured cream sunflower oil

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Makes 1 large loaf cake

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Ingredients

100ml sunflower oil, plus extra to grease

175g caster sugar

175g self-raising flour

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

4 tbsp cocoa powder

100g chocolate chips or chunks

175g very ripe bananas

3 medium eggs, 2 separated

50ml milk

100g milk chocolate

100ml soured cream

handful dried banana chips, roughly chopped

Method

Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment (allow it to come 2cm above top of tin). Mix the sugar, flour, bicarb, cocoa and chocolate in a large bowl.

Mash the bananas in a bowl and stir in the whole egg plus 2 yolks, followed by the oil and milk. Beat the egg whites until stiff. Quickly stir the wet banana mixture into the dry ingredients, stir in a quarter of the egg whites to loosen the mixture, then gently fold in the rest. Gently scrape into the tin and bake for 1 hr 10-15 mins, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Cool in the tin on a wire rack. To make the icing, melt the chocolate and soured cream together in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Chill in the fridge until spreadable. Remove cake from tin, roughly swirl icing over and scatter with the banana chips.