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  • 75g Mortimer chocolate powder
  • 175g plain flour
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 125g butter
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 ripe bananas, mashed

Method

Grease and line a 2 lb loaf tin.

In a saucepan melt the butter.  Add the chocolate powder and stir until dissolved.

In a bowl mix the sugar with the melted chocolate.

Beat in the eggs one at a time.

Mix in the mashed bananas.

Sieve the flour, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into the chocolate mixture and stir until evenly combined.

Pour the mixture into the lined tin.

Bake at 160C (140C  for a fan oven) for between 50 – 60 minutes, until it feels firm to the touch.

Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out.

A lovely moist cake.









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