Flourless Cocoa Banana Bread

Hello! We’re halfway through March and I can sense that spring is around the corner. The weather’s a bit up and down recently as I think we’re in the middle of neither winter nor spring. Nevertheless, I’m happy enough now that the days are longer and less cold.

Up until March, I have explored, and still am, various dark chocolates in the market as my snack in an attempt to have a healthier lifestyle. Especially dark chocolates with a higher cocoa percentage. So far I enjoyed them very much, except that it’s still hard for me to enjoy 100% dark chocolate. I can eat it, but maybe not to the point that I can enjoy it (yet!).

So, as I still have 100% dark chocolate stock in my cupboard (as well as ripe bananas and leftover yoghurt), let’s make flourless cocoa banana bread and use them!

Ingredients:

3 ripe bananas

2 eggs

1 scoop of (vegan) protein powder

2 tbsp cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

(Optional) 2 tbsp of leftover yoghurt

(Optional) dark chocolate chunks

(Optional) icing sugar

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius while you prepare the batter

2. Mix together ripe bananas, eggs, protein powder, and baking powder. This is optional, but I added 2 tbsp of leftover yoghurt. You can use a blender like I did or you can simply mash the bananas and mix everything together in a bowl

3. Pour half into a prepared spring form cake tin or loaf tin. Put the dark chocolate chunks. Then pour the remaining half into the tin

5. Allow to rest for at least 15 minutes. Top it off with optional icing sugar prior to slicing

And that’s it! I keep it in a container in a fridge and enjoy it as a snack for a couple of days. I’m happy that (hopefully!) this cake is a healthier alternative for my sweet tooth. I will also probably play around with this recipe to get a better taste or texture; of course, if I’m not lazy!

That’s all for now. As always, hopefully will try to post more and share what I learn. Wishing everyone a beautiful day and a good last 10 days of Ramadhan to all my friends celebrating!

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