I know you are asking how can chocolate cake be almost healthy and taste good? Well, there is no butter or oil in this cake but it DOES have bananas and applesauce! And is it good? It is excellent! Full of chocolate flavor and moist!! It is delicious and I will make this again! You can serve this as is or if you really want to make it special, serve it with a small scoop of black raspberry chocolate chip Gelato!
INGREDIENTS
3 medium ripe bananas
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder (I used Hershey’s special dark chocolate)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup semi- sweet mini chocolate chips plus some for sprinkling on top if desired.
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and coat an 8 x 8 inch pan with baking spray. Set aside. Combine mashed bananas and sugar into a large mixing bowl and stir until sugar is dissolved and well combined. Add the applesauce, vanilla and egg. Stir to combine. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt stirring well to combine. Fold in one cup of the mini chocolate chips and pour into your prepared pan. Top with more mini chips, if desired, and bake for 25-30 minutes. Mine took 26 minutes.
Let cool, slice and serve.
Enjoy!
This recipe was found at www.fridayiscakenight.com
