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#16 eat a bar of chocolate

I like chocolate.

Banana and Chocolate Back To School Bars.

So mum asked me to make a banana cake today as we had a couple of bananas that needed eating. somehow we have managed to lose all three of our loaf tins which is really annoying at times like this. well, alast year i was given a new baking tray that has holes for making cake bars and very mini loaves. i thought i’d experiment and see what happened if i took a recipe and altered it. so here goes:

you will need:
– 2 cups of self raising flour
– 1 cup of sugar
– 1/2 teaspoon of salt
– 2 bananas (the riper the better)
– 1 cup of chocolate (I used a large chocolate Santa! you could use chocolate buttons or chips to save chopping if you want. Bars of chocolate don’t work well in the cake bar mould as they’re too big but would work well in a full size loaf.)
– 1 egg
– 1/2 cup of milk
– 1/4 cup of butter (melted)
– optional: smarties for decoration

equipment:
– sieve (however i didn’t sift my ingredients so it’s not essential)
– spatula
– large mixing bowl
– fork to mash bananas
– wooden spoon
– baking tray (if you don’t have a cake bar mould, you can use the same recipe in fairy cake cases, or in a loaf tin)

1. Preheat the oven to 180*C/350*F and grease cake tin

2. Combine all dry ingredients together in a bowl.

3. Mash the bananas to a smooth paste

4. Add all other ingredients (minus the smarties) and combine until well mixed and smooth

5. Pour into cake tins

6. Place smarties on top of the cake mix.

7. Place in the middle of the oven and cook for around 20 minutes or until well risen and golden. You can pierce the middle of a cake with a skewer and if it comes out clean, they’re cooked! (for fairy cakes around 15-20 minutes i reckon, the recipe i remember says 1 hour for a loaf tin. it will depend on your oven so just keep an eye on them.)

8. Enjoy!

I wasn’t sure how these would turn out, the smarties lost some of their colour and the colouring leaked onto the mix, but I quite like the messy look of them. They taste great, not too much banana but just enough, and enough chocolate to balance it all out.

I highly recommend getting one of these cake moulds, perfect snack size cake bars made and are great for me and my brothers lunches.