Chocolate Banana Cake with Sour Cream

A fragrant and delicate chocolate-banana cake with sour cream, which can be prepared not only for home tea drinking, but also for a festive table. The rich chocolate flavor of the cake is achieved due to the fact that cocoa powder and chocolate drops are added to the dough, as well as thanks to sour cream, which includes milk chocolate. Mega Chocolate Cupcake!

Ingredients

• For the cupcake:
• Bananas (ripe) – 2 pcs. (weight without peel – 175 g)
• Chocolate drops (or chopped chocolate, or chopped nuts, optional) – 100 g
• Vegetable oil (odorless) – 100 ml
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Milk – 50 ml
• Sugar – 175 g
• Flour – 175 g (1 glass with a capacity of 250 ml + 1 tablespoon with a slide)
• Cocoa powder – 40 g (about 4 tablespoons)
• Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
• Soda – 0.5 teaspoon
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• For the cream:
• Milk chocolate – 100 g
• Sour cream 20-30% – 100 g

Directions

1. Prepare your ingredients. You can use regular chocolate instead of chocolate drips. Alternatively, you can substitute chopped nuts for chocolate, or use a mixture of nuts and chocolate, or add nothing at all. Bananas for cooking are best used as ripe as possible or even overripe – they are more sweet and more aromatic. Turn on the oven immediately, the desired temperature is 160-170 ° С.
2. In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and, if desired, chocolate drops (or chopped chocolate or chopped nuts). Mix thoroughly. Set aside.
3. Add one whole egg and two yolks (I was lucky and there were two yolks in one egg at once). Set the egg whites aside. Stir the mixture with a whisk.
4. Pour in milk and butter. Stir again.
5. Beat the egg whites that have been set aside until they become firm peaks.

   

6. Pour the liquid mass into the mixture of dry ingredients. Stir.
7. In several steps, gently stir in the beaten egg whites into this mass.
8. Line a rectangular baking dish with parchment and fill with dough. Bake the cake in the oven at 160-170 ° C for about 70-80 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden skewer.
9. Remove the finished cake from the mold and cool on a wire rack.
10. You can serve such a cupcake yourself, but if you prepare a simple sour cream with chocolate for it, then you can safely serve it on the festive table. For the cream, combine sour cream (the fatter the better) and milk chocolate broken into pieces.
11. Place in a water bath and heat until the chocolate is completely melted. You can also do this in the microwave, the main thing is not to overheat the mass so that the chocolate does not curl. When hot, the cream looks more like a frosting, so it needs to be completely cooled. Chill the cream in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
12. Cover the cooled muffin with cream. You can also garnish it with chopped nuts, banana slices and chocolate drops.