eggless banana chocolate cake with dates & nuts
Ingredients
- DRY MIX:
All purpose flour/maida - 195 gms / 11/2 cups
Cocoa powder - 15 gms/1/4 cup
Baking powder - 4 gms/1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 gm/1/4 tsp
Salt - 1 gm/ 1/4 tsp
Choco-chips 60 gms/1/4 cup
Mixed Nuts roughly ground
(Pista,Almond&cashew). - 40 gms/1/4cup
WET MIX:
Dates without seed - 60gms/1/3 cup
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Milk (warm) - 60 gms/1/4 cup
Milk for batter - 110gms/1/2 cup
Lemon Juice - 5gm/1 tsp
Oil - 100gms/1/2 cup
Coffe powder - 2gm/1 tsp
Vanilla essence - 3 gm/1/2 tsp
Sugar(whitecastorsugar+brown sugar) - 85 gms
Instructions
- Soak dates in 1/4 cup of warm milk for 10 minutes.2.In a mixing bowl add chopped bananas, sugars, lemon juice, soaked dates, vanilla-essence&oil grind it.3.Line a loaf pan with parchment at bottom and smear oil all over the pan keep ready.4.Take ground mixture in a mixing bowl now sieve in all dry ingredients(maida, baking powder, baking soda, salt & cocoa powder).5.Add mixed nuts powder mix.6.Mix by adding milk then & there to the shown consistency add in 1/4 part of chocochips mix well.7.Pre heat oven at 180 deg for 10 minutes.8.Pour this to the pan add rest of the chocochips.9.Bake for 40-50 minutes in preheated oven or till skewer inserted come out clean.10.Take out cover with cloth for 10 - 15 minutes to cool.Then remove the parchment cut only when completely cool.
Notes
- Oven temperatures differs with various oven so, set the temperature accordingly.
- Cooking time varies from oven to oven.
- If you are having small banana's then use four.
- I have used only all-purpose flour but you can use combination of all purpose flour and wheat flour.
- Use any flavourless oil even melted butter.
- I have used some minced nuts you can even add chopped nuts of your choice.