Double Chocolate Banana Bread (Bake 1)
Don’t I just love the sound of DOUBLE chocolate? I guess it did not really matter what came after the chocolate but it was a great bonus that it was banana. I enjoy my banana bread so adding double chocolate to it made me a happy lady. I made this once and was sold. I also brought it to a going away party for one of my colleagues and I got quite a number of compliments and many asked if they could carry some home. What I loved most about this cake was how fudgy and moist it is. The flavour is mostly chocolate with a good burst of bananas. It’s divine, heaven in your mouth. I doubt I’ll ever make plain banana cake again. This recipe is definitely a keeper. This is my 1st post this year on the 30 bakes in 2013 so 29 more to go. Wish me luck 🙂 HAPPY BAKING!!
Ingredients
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup oil
- 3 bananas, mashed
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- ½ cup cocoa
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease the bottom of a loaf pan (I made double this recipe and used a bigger pan)
Beat the sugar, eggs and oil in a large bowl until combined. Beat in the banana and vanilla in a separate bowl at low speed.
Sift the flour, cocoa and baking soda together in a different bowl, add to the banana mixture a little at a time till combined.
Stir in the chocolate chips. Spoon the batter into the pan and bake for about 60-70 mins.
Let the pan cool for about 10 mins, remove from the pan and cool completely.
HAPPY EATING!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/double-chocolate-banana-bread/Special (Black Bean) Brownies
So when I first saw this on Pinterest sometime in April the “pinner” called them special brownies, I just had to see what made them so special. When I went over to Tia Tofu I found out what made these brownies so special BLACK BEANS!!!!
Can you imagine that? Baking with Black beans!!!!! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? Plus how do you bake with no flour????? GOSH! Was I shocked or what. I thought it was weird that someone actually sat and discovered that you can bake with beans instead of flour. But…….me being Wangeci I got curious and just had to try it. I wanted to “see” what the brownies tasted like how weird they would taste coz of the beans although the blogger at Tia Tofu had said that you could not taste the beans.
So I first thought that black beans are what we (Kikuyus) call Njahi (black bean with a white strip)
Njahis- DO NOT USE THIS
So in my mind as I thought that I would EVENTUALLY get round to baking these I would be using Njahis. When I did a Google search the black beans did not really look like Njahis. So when I went to buy groceries at the City Park Hawkers Market I asked one of the ladies who was selling if they knew what black beans were and she did not seem to know. After consulting a few people one said that there were some “new” beans being sold but they were dry. So I got some.
Black beans-dry
Black beans-boiled
Well first forward to about a week later and I tried them and boy was I SURPRISED! They actually tasted like brownies. I loved them. I gave them to a few people; two of the people I shared with had no idea that I used beans. The first one liked it, said it tasted great and when I told them it was beans she was QUITE surprised. The second person also did not know it was made of beans and she liked it too but said it was too chocolatey (but they’re brownies so….) again she was quite surprised that it was made of beans. The third person my gal Liz knew I was baking with beans. Her first reaction, I think was, they’re gooooddd….. but they taste funny..aah not funny just different but they are good. So she liked them too.
So verdict…..These will make you great and healthy brownies. I personally love them. HAPPY BAKING!!
Ingredients
- 425gms of black beans, boiled and drained (you can use canned)
- 1 cup oats
- ½ cup cocoa
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup stevia/sweetlow/ or any diabetic sweetener. I used sugar though because I did not have this buts better to use the diabetic sugar to reduce calories and refined sugars.
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 ¼ cup of coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons of oil (nothing too string smelling)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ cup chocolate chips (optional, I did not use)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
Put the black beans, oats, cocoa powder and baking powder in a food processor until its flour like ( there shouldn’t be any bean pieces)
Transfer the mixture into a mixing bowl and add the coconut milk, oil, vanilla and sweetener. Stir in the chocolate chips
If you do not have a food processor like me, put in all the ingredients (save for the chocolate chips and pulse for about a minute at a time. Stopping to give the blender a break. Do this till the mixture is COMPLETELY smooth.
Pour batter into a greased 8×8 pan. Bake for 30 mins
If you want to add some icing try this Peanut Butter Frosting. HAPPY EATING!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/special-black-bean-brownies/
Easy (one bowl) Chocolate Cake
image from recipe.com
Easy (one bowl) Chocolate cake A few years back when I really frustrated I went home and decided to bake. I did not have many ingredients so I took what was available out of the pantry and decided to Google for some recipes for cake. I came across an easy chocolate cake and I really liked it. Truth be told that was also the day I begun to realize how therapeutic baking is. Well since then I have tried many other recipes all revolving around more or less the same ingredients but when I tried this one from All Recipes and I was in love. They have quite a number of them there but try this one first then the others. You will not be disappointed. From the photos above you can tell that I was not able to get a picture of the whole cake. First time I made it I decided to share it with my friends so as to distribute the calories 🙂 by the time I thought that I should take a photo more than half the cake was gone. On the second Instance one of the friend I gave the cake to loved it so much that she asked me to make it for a bridal shower and I sliced it up before realizing I should have taken a photo! All in All photos or no photo this cake is great you will not be disappointed if you try it. HAPPY BAKING!
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two nine inch round pans.
In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
HAPPY EATING!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/easy-one-bowl-chocolate-cake/
