Recipe: Low Fat Chocolate Banana Cake

Ingredients for cake
- 225g self-raising flour
- 3 tablespoons fat-reduced cocoa powder or just cocoa powder
- 115g light muscavado sugar or just brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- 2 eggs
- 4 tablespoons skimmed milk or just milk
- 4 tablespoons sunflower oil or any vegetable oil
- 2 large ripe bananas (I used 2 but I feel I could use 3 instead)


Ingredients for icing
- 175g icing sugar, sifted
- 6 teaspoons fat-reduced cocoa powder or just cocoa powder
- 1-2 table spoons of warm water


Instructions for cake


1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees celcius and grease a 20cm cake tin.


2. Sift flour into mixing bowl with cocoa. Stir in sugar.


3. Make a well in the centre and add golden syrup, eggs, milk, oil.


4. Mash bananas thoroughly and stir into the mixture until well blended.


5. Pour cake mixture into tin and bake for 1-1.25 hours or until the centre of the cake springs back when lightly pressed.


6. Remove cake and leave on wire rack to cool.




Instructions for icing


1. Put aside 50g of icing sugar and 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder.


2. Make a dark icing by beating the remaining sugar and cocoa powder with enough warm water to make a thick icing.


3. Pour it over the cake and spread evenly.




I didn't try making the icing but I think with it, it will be quite nice. I personally quite like this cake because it really tastes less rich and much healthier than normal cakes. If you realised, there was no butter used! That is why it is "healthier". Haha! I say that because, even if it is healthier, it does not mean you can eat the entire cake alone! :)


Some pictures of the cake.

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