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Published: April 30, 2019 | Updated December 17, 2020 | By Harini

Banana Chocolate Cake (Egg Free)

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A wonderfully moist and tasty chocolate banana cake recipe that you can make effortlessly. Put those overripe bananas to best use with this cake that you will love. You can throw in a handful of walnuts, pecans or mixed seeds for that added crunch and there you have, best breakfast with tea. Here is how to make perfect chocolate banana cake at home!

closeup shot of a slice of banana chocolate cake

Do you love banana breads? We love banana bread at out home and I make it very often. No wonder as there are more than often a couple of bananas lying in the fruit basket that is too ripe to eat such. Along with classic banana bread I also bake these walnut banana cake, muffins, chocolate banana cake or sometime caramelized bananas for quick snack.

Banana Chocolate Cake Recipe

Soft, moist and absolutely delicious

100 % whole wheat flour 

Egg and butter free recipe

Vegan if you use dairy free milk like almond milk

With all the goodness of banana and walnuts

Easy one bowl recipe, no beater or mixer required

Last week I had a couple of red bananas that were really ripe. I just cut them into slices, popped in a zip lock bag and put in the freezer. Yesterday I used 2 of those frozen bananas to make banana mango smoothie and the rest went into this cake. If you have bananas at the verge of spoiling, just peel, chop and freeze them. They freeze wonderfully and you can use is to make cake, ice creams and smoothies. For cakes, you will have to thaw them at bit but for smoothies you can use them as such.

overhead shot of banana chocolate cake

Ingredients You Will Need

You can use any type of banana in this recipe. Sweeter the fruit you will need less sugar. Also make sure bananas are really ripe and soft for that wonderful flavor. Here I have used unsweetened cocoa powder. Use best quality cocoa powder for best results.

This banana chocolate cake is one of our favorites and a very delicious one too. This cake has a subtle flavor of banana with chocolate taste. This cake is made with 100% whole wheat flour. Also this is an egg free recipe and you don’t need butter or condensed milk as well. The best part you can whip up the batter in 10 minutes with just a bowl and spoon. All these make this cake a wonderful holiday breakfast. Kids will enjoy this with badam or pistachio milk.

The fat used in this recipe is oil. I have used olive oil as with all my oil based cakes. You can also use any vegetable oil or canola oil.

As with all my banana breads, I have a added a good dose of nuts here also. Instead of walnuts you can also use pecans, almonds or seeds like pumpkin seeds.

Finally I have also added chunks of dark chocolate before baking. The chocolate melts and beautifully blends with the cake creating a brownie like texture. I highly recommend adding chocolate chunks in this banana chocolate cake recipe.

overhead shot of freshly baked chocolate banana cake

How To Make Banana Chocolate Cake

1. Preheat your oven at 180C / 350 F. Grease and dust a loaf tin properly.

2. If you are bananas are frozen, thaw them for 15-20 minutes at room temperature. Take the chopped bananas in a mixing bowl and mash very well with a spoon or whisk.

Overripe bananas mashed in a bowl

3. Add oil, sugar and vanilla extract to the mashed bananas. Mix well and whisk until the whole mixture turns pale, light and fluffy.

Oil, sugar and vanilla added to mashed bananas

4. Place a sieve over the bowl containing wet ingredients. Add wheat flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda. Sift the dry ingredients over the we ingredients and mix.

Sifting wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking powder over wet ingredients

5. Cut and fold the dry ingredients and whip up the batter.

Whisking up cake batter

6. Add milk and mix well.

Milk added to loosen the cake batter

7. Throw in the chopped walnuts and mix.

walnuts added to cake batter

8. Pout the batter into the prepared loaf tin and tap once or twice. Top with chopped dark chocolate.

Ready to bake chocolate banana cake batter

9. Bake in the preheated oven for 35-45 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.

Banana chocolate cake fresh out of oven

10. Let the cake cool for 20 minutes.

11. Slice and serve chocolate banana cake as required.

thick slices of banana chocolate cake ready to serve

Make It

Vegan

Just use water or almond milk instead of dairy milk

Nut free

You can simple omit adding walnuts and just top with chocolate

Top Tips For Best Chocolate Banana Cake

Use over ripe sweet bananas in this recipe

Make sure to mash the bananas really well before adding the other ingredients

For lighter cake use plain flour instead of whole wheat flour.

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closeup shot of a slice of banana chocolate cake

Banana Chocolate Cake (Egg Free)

Harini
A wonderfully moist and tasty chocolate banana cake that you can make effortlessly. Put those overripe bananas to best use with this cake that you will love. You can throw in a handful of walnuts, pecans or mixed seeds for that added crunch and there you have, best breakfast with tea!
4.37 from 11 votes
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Total Time 50 mins
Course breakfast or snack
Cuisine continental
Servings 1 loaf
Calories 234 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 big over ripe bananas OR 4 medium ones
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1.75 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup milk almond milk for vegan
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven at 180C / 350 F. Grease and dust a loaf tin properly.
  • If you are bananas are frozen, thaw them for 15-20 minutes at room temperature. Take the chopped bananas in a mixing bowl and mash very well with a spoon or whisk.
  • Add oil, sugar and vanilla extract to the mashed bananas. Mix well and whisk until the whole mixture turns pale, light and fluffy.
  • Place a sieve over the bowl containing wet ingredients. Add wheat flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda. Sift the dry ingredients over the we ingredients and mix.
  • Cut and fold the dry ingredients and whip up the batter. Add milk and mix
  • Throw in the chopped walnuts and mix.
  • Pout the batter into the prepared loaf tin and tap once or twice. Top with chopped dark chocolate
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 35-45 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
  • Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes.
  • Remove from the pan and cool for 20 minutes.
  • Slice and serve as required

Notes

  • This recipe yields around 10 slices of medium thickness.
  • You can double the recipe
  • The cake keeps well for 3-4 days in refrigerates moist and soft.
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Nutrition

Calories: 234kcal
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I am Harini. The recipe developer, food photographer and chef behind cook click n devour. My aim behind this blog is to provide easy, tried and tested recipes that beginners can cook with confidence. I took keen interest in cooking and took courses on cooking, baking during teens purely out of passion. With a decade of cooking experience I am glad to share my recipes and culinary knowledge with you all here. Stay tuned and happy cooking!
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Comments

  1. Pranjal says

    April 30, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    5 stars
    Can we bake it in a cooker?

  2. Minoo says

    April 30, 2019 at 8:48 pm

    4 stars
    Can it made in a microwave.. not the convection mode..

  3. Rachna says

    May 1, 2019 at 12:00 am

    5 stars
    Looks so yummy and delicious

  4. Sangita Sarangi says

    May 4, 2019 at 7:27 am

    5 stars
    I tried out and it was wonderful. Thanks for such an easy and yummy banana cake recipe

  5. Monica Rocha says

    June 23, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    Tks alot for the receipe. Can I bake it in a cooker.

  6. Usha Tandon says

    June 23, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    5 stars
    Hi i am a big fan of your recipes.
    I have also tried a whole lot of baking since 1984.

  7. Kanti says

    August 9, 2019 at 3:20 pm

    5 stars
    This chocolate cake cake turned out super soft, really moist and tasted divine! Thank you so so much for this wonderful recipe.

  8. Sita says

    April 24, 2020 at 8:21 am

    5 stars
    I wonder if there might be a substitute for the oil, like flax seeds? Thank you.

  9. Swati says

    November 12, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    Hi Harini, do we need to add the entire half cup of chopped chocolate on top after transferring to pan? Or does part of it need to be mixed in the batter?

  10. Harini says

    November 12, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    Hi Swati,

    You can do either ways. I have topped them, you can also mix some in the batter along with walnuts.

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