Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Cake (Eggless & Butterless)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 15 mins  
Cooking Time: 25-40 mins
Servings: yields 1 big square cake or 2 loaves

WW Banana Chocolate Cake

Ingredients: 

Dry Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour - 2 cups
  
• Cocoa Powder - 2/3 cup
• Baking soda - 1 1/2 tsp

Wet Ingredients:

• Banana, ripen - 4 nos (long variety)
• Olive Oil - 4 tbsp
• Brown Sugar - 1- 1 1/2 cups, packed (If we dont want to be sweet, we can use just 1 cup as I used here)
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
• Hot Water (Not boiling, just hot) - 1 1/2 cups
• Lime / Lemon Juice - 2  tsp

Method: 

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F for 10 mins
2. Grease the baking pan and keep it ready
3. In a sieve, add the wheat flour, Baking soda and Cocoa powder. Sieve the dry ingredients into a wide plate/bowl
   
4. In another large mixing bowl, mash the bananas well
5. Add the oil and whisk well 
   
6. Add the Brown sugar and beat well
7. Add Vanilla extract and mix well
8. Add warm water and mix to form a uniform mixture
   
9. Then add the lime juice into it and mix 
10. Add the dry flour mix into the wet mixture and blend well without any lumps
    
11. Pour the batter into the baking trays
    
12. Bake in preheated oven for about 30-40 mins or until its done (can be checked by using tooth pick method). Since I used small cake pans, mine got done in 25 mins
    
13. Once its done, remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 mins in the pan
    
14. Then transfer them to cooling rack and allow to cool
15. Slice and Serve hot!