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Shredded Chocolate Banana Cake

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

2 cups 125g / 4.4ozAll-purpose flour - unsifted
1 teaspoon 5mlBaking soda
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlBaking powder
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlSalt
3/4 cup 82g / 2.9ozBittersweet chocolate - grated
3   Bananas - fully ripe
1/4 cup 59mlHalf-and-half
2 teaspoons 10mlVanilla extract
6 tablespoons 90mlUnsalted butter - room temp.
2 tablespoons 30mlShortening
1 cup 198g / 7ozSugar
2   Eggs - at room temp

Recipe Instructions

confectioner's sugar -- (option)

Butter or spray with non-stick cooking spray a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan; set aside. Preheat oven to 325F.

Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt onto a sheet of wax paper. Place the grated chocolate in a bowl and stir 1 tsp of the sifted mixture; set aside.

Mash bananas in a bowl and stir in half-and-half and vanilla; set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter and shortening on moderate speed for 3 to 4 minutes. Raise speed to moderately high, add half of sugar and beat for 1 minute; add remaining sugar and beat 1 minute longer, scraping down sides and bottom of the bowl.

Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in banana mixture on low speed.

On low speed, blend in flour mixture in 2 additions, beating just until particles of flour have been absorbed. Stir in chocolate by hand. Pour and scrape the batter into the prepared pan.

Bake for 1 hour or slightly longer - until risen, golden brown on top, and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean and dry.

Cool on a rack for 3 to 4 minutes.

Carefully invert onto a second rack, remove pan and invert the cake again to cool right side up. Sift confectioner's sugar on the top.

Source:
Family Circle "Back to Good Health"

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