Ginger Banana Cake with Chocolate
Very ripe bananas, maple syrup and unsweetened applesauce come together in this vegan β 65 minutes, 7 steps, and the kind of result worth repeating. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 7 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and whisk. At medium difficulty across 7 steps, it's manageable with a little attention. As written, the ingredients are plant-based.
What you'll need
Shopping list (4)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
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How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 180C (350F) and grease and line a 20 cm square or round cake tin.
- In a bowl, whisk together the buckwheat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a separate large bowl, mash the bananas until smooth, then stir in the maple syrup, applesauce, grated ginger, lemon juice and vanilla until well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and fold gently with a spatula just until no dry flour remains; the batter will be thick, so avoid overmixing.
- Fold in most of the chocolate chips, then pour the batter into the prepared tin, smooth the top, and scatter the remaining chips over the surface.
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until the cake is risen and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean apart from melted chocolate.
- Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.
You'll use: Oven Β· Whisk
Ingredient substitutions
- Lemon
- lime Β· 1 tbsp white wine vinegar per lemon
Tips & common questions
How long does Ginger Banana Cake with Chocolate take to make?
About 65 minutes from start to finish β an estimate based on the 7 steps and 11 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of lemon?
Try lime. See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes β use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Ginger Banana Cake with Chocolate vegan?
Based on its ingredients, this recipe contains no meat, fish, dairy or egg, so it looks vegan-friendly. Always double-check labels on packaged items.
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Ginger Banana Cake with Chocolate is an original recipe developed in-house by Consomee. Photo: In suite breakfast experience (3119861609).jpg by Matt @ PEK from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure on top β how we source recipes.