This recipe is super quick with less hassle but the outcome is nothing less than a super soft sumptuous banana chocolate cake. And yes, it is baked on a microwave, which takes 4 minutes only! It is perfect as an evening teacake or a dinner party dessert.

Serves: 5 people

Ingredients:

• ¾ Cup Flour
• ¾ Cup Sugar
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder (depending on how much chocolatey you want the cake to be)
• A pinch of Salt
• 2 Eggs at r.t.p
• 6 tbsp of melted unsalted Butter
• 5 tbsp of warm Milk
• 2 ripe Bananas

Procedure:

Take a big mixing bowl and strain all the dry ingredients into it (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder). It’s important to strain them so that there are no lumps in the mixture. Remove the strainer and pour in the melted butter, warm milk (don’t boil the milk, just heat it up a little bit on the microwave) and the two eggs (make sure you use eggs in room temperature and not from fridge). After this use an electric mixer or spoon or a beater to mix the mixture very well. I have used an electric mixer. Make sure there are no lumps in it.

Mash the bananas on a separate small bowl and make a paste sort of thing like this.

Add on this paste on the batter and then mix it again. The final batter will look something like this.

Take a 2 litres microwave safe container with a flat surface. Grease it with butter or oil. Then pour in the batter. Tap the container to make the batter even and get rid of air bubbles. Put it in the microwave without any lid for 2 minutes at first. Then another 2 minutes. Use a toothpick to insert in the cake and if it comes out clean, your cake is ready.

Immediately after taking it out of the oven, cover it up with a lid for about 5 to 10 minutes. This is very important, as this will keep the cake soft. I have tried making it without this step and the cake has turned hard later on.

Final Touch:

You can use a freshly cut banana to decorate and some left over cake batter to drizzle it on top of the bananas.

For a fancier touch, you can also make a liquid chocolate topping. Just take a handful of milk chocolate cubes in a mug. Add just enough cream on this. Heat this mixture up in a microwave to melt the chocolate and mix it really well to create an irresistible topping. Pour this chocolate fountain on top of the cake (In this case, I have made the cake round-shaped to make it more aesthetic).

You can eat it immediately if you like hot cake or refrigerate it for 3 to 4 hours and then dig in. Hope you will love it. Let me know how it turned out 😉