For a very long time I’ve been looking for a cake that: 1. is super easy to make; 2. has a lot of chocolate; 3. has simple and handy ingredients; 4. has a slightly crunchy exterior yet is extremely moist on the inside and 5. is awesome looking. I’m happy to report that I finally found it (insert Single ladies theme song here – oh-oh-oh-oooooh-oh-oh-oh-oh!). There’s just no way around this: it’s an easy to make chocolate cake with modest, handy ingredients but with amazing taste and looks.
Ingredients
- 200 g butter
- 125 g icing sugar
- 4 eggs
- 150 g mashed bananas (2 small or 1 large)
- 1 tbs bitter almond extract
- 175 g white flour
- 25 g cocoa
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 cup red currants
- 1 milk chocolate (100 g)
- fresh red currants
- icing sugar
Instructions
- Beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy, then add egg one at a time, until incorporated. Mix in the bananas and almond extract.
- Add the rest of the sifted ingredients (flour, cocoa, salt, bicarbonate) and gently mix until just incorporated. Add the currants and use a spatula to fold them in.
- Pour mixture into a silicone round pan and bake at 160C for 40 minutes.
- Remove cake from pan and cover with melted chocolate, the fresh currants and powder with icing sugar.
Yup, it’s that easy. I loved how it turned out so moist and chocolaty on the inside and how I could still feel a discrete taste of the bitter almond extract…yum! I dare you to make it, once you give it a try I’m afraid you’ll also discover that this is THE chocolate cake when you need a quick fix that will impress your guests. It looks great, tastes great and is ready just under an hour.
Love and red currants!
Hi,
I would like to use your recipe to hand out with samples when I take my currants to the farmers’ market on Saturday. On the free hand out the measurements will be transposed to cups and it will include a reference to you and your website.
It is a good example of what to do with currants. In the past I’ve used my own recipes for lemon/currant muffins and red currant juice with seltzer.
Thank you for sharing.
Nannette
Addendum:
Baked two cakes. 1 for farmers’ market. 1 for block party. Handed out samples of cake at farmers’ market along with paper towels. Brilliant idea using melted milk chocolate for the icing.
Your recipe was a hit.