Easy Banana and Chocolate Crater Cake
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Notes
You don't want to overbake this, but it's also a pretty forgiving recipe. Since the bananas are gooey, check a few spots with a toothpick to make sure you're not just getting banana. The outer edges should come out clean and if the middle isn't 100 percent done it's OK, it will cook a little in the dish while it's cooling.
Let it sit for at least an hour before eating. And yes, the middle will sink in, that's why it's called "crater cake"!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla
3-4 very ripe bananas, mashed
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease the inside of a 9-x-13-inch baking pan with butter. In two separate bowls, mash the bananas and beat the eggs. Set aside.
- Cream together room temperature butter and sugar with a hand mixer or with the paddle attachment of your stand mixer.
- Add beaten eggs and beat this mixture until smooth.
- Add vanilla and mashed bananas. It might look a little funky at this point, but that's OK! Mix again until smooth.
- Sift flour, powder, and baking soda into a separate big bowl. Add this dry mixture to the banana mixture, alternating with sour cream. (Add a scoop of dry mixture, a scoop of sour cream, and keep mixing and repeating until all ingredients are used up.) It's best to have your mixer on the lowest setting for this so it doesn't overmix.
- Pour half the cake batter into the greased 9-x-13-inch baking pan.
- In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and brown sugar with a fork, breaking up any clumps and making sure it's well incorporated. Sprinkle half the mixture over batter in pan. Top with half the chocolate chips. Repeat, so you have two layers of cake and two layers of cinnamon-brown sugar-chocolate (this will be your top layer, like a coffee cake).
- Bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes, until the center of the cake is set. Don't overbake it, the middle will cook a little even after it's taken out of the oven.
Information
- Category
- Cake, Desserts
- Yield
- 12-20 cake slices
- Prep Time
- 30 minutes
- Cook Time
- 50 minutes
- Total Time
- 1 hour, 19 minutes, 59 seconds