NUTELLA BANANA CAKE: World Nutella Day

Today is World Nutella Day, and Nutella Banana Bundt Cake is the perfect cake to use up any black bananas and celebrate the day! 

Nutella is an amazing chocolate hazelnut spread. It's great on just about anything. You should have it in your pantry.

NUTELLA BANANA CAKE

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
4 medium (or 3 large) over-ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup pecans (optional)
1 cup Nutella, divided
powdered sugar for dusting

Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Spray bundt cake pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, whisk together banana, sugar, brown sugar. Beat in egg, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract. Slowly whisk in the flour, baking soda, and baking powder, until there are no lumps. Fold in pecans.
Fill pan with half batter. Add 2/3 of the Nutella, trying not to let it come in contact with pan. Add rest of batter on top, covering all the Nutella.
Bake 40-50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool and flip onto dish. 
Dust with powdered sugar.

BANANA NUTELLA BUNDT CAKE: National Hazelnut Cake Day

Are you getting tired of banana bread? Still have lots of bananas to use up? Well then you're in luck. Today is National Hazelnut Cake Day, and Banana Nutella Bundt Cake is the perfect cake to use up those black bananas and celebrate the day! 

Nutella is an amazing chocolate hazelnut spread. It's great on just about anything. You should have it in your pantry.

BANANA NUTELLA BUNDT CAKE

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
4 medium (or 3 large) over-ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup pecans (optional)
1 cup Nutella, divided
powdered sugar for dusting

Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Spray bundt cake pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, whisk together banana, sugar, brown sugar. Beat in egg, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract. Slowly whisk in the flour, baking soda, and baking powder, until there are no lumps. Fold in pecans.
Fill pan with half batter. Add 2/3 of the Nutella, trying not to let it come in contact with pan. Add rest of batter on top, covering all the Nutella.
Bake 40-50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool and flip onto dish. T
Dust with powdered sugar.

CHOCOLATE BANANA CAKE: Retro Ad & Recipe

I adore Chocolate and Bananas, so I was very pleased to find this Retro Ad & Recipe for Chocolate Banana Cake. You can use a chocolate cake mix or make from scratch.. Follow the rest of the directions for the delicious Chocolate Banana Cake with Chocolate Banana Icing!

Banana Cake with Chocolate Chunks

Everyone is familiar with banana bread, and I love banana bread as much as the next person, but my favorite banana recipe growing up was for Banana 'Cake'. Yes, it's not bread.. totally different texture and sweeter. The recipe is from The Settlement Cookbook which was my mother's main cookbook. Of course when I make the Banana Cake, I add chocolate chunks!


BANANA CAKE with CHOCOLATE CHUNKS

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups sugar
4 Tbsp sour cream
1/2 cup sweet butter
2 eggs
1-1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup banana pulp  (Bananas need to be black and mushy -- almost rotten. Mash up well)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
4 ounces chocolate, chopped (or chocolate chips!)

Directions
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs (beaten very lightly) and the baking soda dissolved in the sour cream. Beat well, then add the bananas, flour, salt and vanilla. Mix well. Fold in chocolate chunks.
Bake in well buttered pan in moderate oven (350) for 40-45 minutes. (I usually use a square pan, but last time I used a bundt pan.)

You can frost this cake with coffee, chocolate or cream cheese frosting, but the cake is so moist and good it really doesn't need any frosting! I never frost it.