VeggiePlatter Turns 6

I guess "double birthday and a triple chocolate cake" would have been an apt title for this post. :)

The idea of a recipe journal took the form of VeggiePlatter, this month six years ago. This online culinary journey of mine has been fun so far, earning friends along the way as an added bonus. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my readers/fellow bloggers who invest their time going through this blog & leave comments and to those strangers who email me appreciating my work. Thank you. :))

And BTW, yours truly, you know who celebrated her birthday yesterday. Hope I turned wiser as well along getting older. :) My daughter who is turning into a chocoholic wanted me to bake a chocolate cake on the occasion. Though I have a chocolate cake recipe, I used the chocolate muffins recipe for the cake as we had really liked it earlier and also I had to get rid of some overripe bananas. I used store bought Pillsbury chocolate fudge frosting and some decors upon my daughter's insistence. My daughter enjoyed it meaning the recipe was a hit. It is a flavorful cake and the texture is somewhere between fluffy and dense.

I just doubled the recipe I used for the muffins but again mentioning the ingredients anyway.

 

Ingredients:

1/4 cup milk + 1 tsp apple cider vinegar

1&1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsels

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 & 1/3 cup mashed bananas

5 Tbsp melted butter / oil

1/2 pound chocolate frosting

1 Tbsp cake sprinkles (optional)

 

 

Method:

1. Add vinegar to the milk which is at room temperature. Leave aside for five minutes.

2. Preheat the oven at 350 deg F. Grease a cake pan.

3. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder.

4. Add milk-vinegar mixture, vanilla and butter to a bowl and mix well. Add mashed bananas, sugar and combine well.

5. Now add the sifted dry ingredients from step 2 to the wet ingredients in step 3. Mix well and stir in the chocolate chips.

6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 40 - 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean.

7. Cool the cake and remove from the cake pan.

8. Apply the frosting and decorate if desired.

 

Check what other marathoners of BM#23 are cooking, here.

 

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