banana chocolate-chip bundt cake

all gone

i bet you’re wondering where the banana chocolate-chip bundt cake went, right?  honestly, it was hard to keep this dessert (or breakfast!) on the plate long enough to take a picture of it!

step 1 - getting all ingredients outbrown sugarchopping nutsmixing the streuselchocolate chips and flourmashing bananas

this recipe is something that my mom used to make for my sister on her birthday, and it’s absolutely delicious, as evidenced by the empty plates in the first picture.  i have to admit that i never helped make it with her, but i do know that i always enjoyed it.  so when i realized recently that i hadn’t used my bundt pan since it was gifted to me, this was the first cake i thought of making.

four bowls lined up

i asked my mom if she’d send me the recipe, and when i received it, scanned and attached to the email, i noted the cautionary comment she jotted along the top of the recipe years ago: “Never make this cake if you are in a rush.” i laughed when i read that – i mean, how long could one bundt cake really take to make?

streusel toppinglayering in the cake

why is it that i always end up eating my words?  this cake takes a REALLY long time to make, dear readers.  and five, let me say that again: FIVE bowls!  i am the kind of baker that tends to cut corners when possible, eliminating bowls, simplifying steps, etc.  but i couldn’t find a single step that wasn’t necessary, or a corner to cut.  all the steps were essential to creating a light, yet moist and flavorful cake.

out of the oven!

indeed, this cake was so wonderful that we ended up giving over half of it away because we couldn’t resist the amazing temptation, and were afraid we’d eat the whole thing in less than a day.  the struesel on top, in the middle, and sprinkled on the base offers a nutty crunch and cinnamon flavor that mixes really well with the bananas and chocolate, which on their own are perhaps my favorite combination of flavors in a dessert.

lifting the pan...

i think the most exciting part of this recipe (besides eating it) is the moment when you flip the bundt pan over and slowly lift it up, hoping that the entire cake is going to stay on the plate.  and luckily, it did!  i hope yours turns out this well, and that you have as many people to share it with as we did – or that your stomach can handle a ton of delicious cake!

can't wait to eat this!

banana chocolate-chip bundt cake

via my mom’s friend julie l, original source unknown
yields about 20 fast-disappearing slices
  • streusel
  • 1/3c all purpose flour
  • 3T brown sugar
  • 1/4t ground cinnamon
  • 3T cold butter
  • 1c chopped walnuts
  • cake
  • 2c chocolate chips
  • 3c all purpose flour
  • 1T baking powder
  • 1/2t salt
  • 1c mashed ripe bananas (2 large bananas)
  • 1/4c (soy) milk
  • 1T vanilla extract
  • 1c butter, softened
  • 1½c white sugar
  • 4 eggs
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  1. for the streusel: stir together flour, sugar, and cinnamon in bowl #1 until combined
  2. mix the butter into the mixture with your fingers until it looks like coarse crumbs, then add the walnuts
  3. for the cake: preheat the oven to 325º
  4. butter and flour a bundt pan
  5. in bowl #2, toss the chocolate chips with 2T of the flour
  6. in bowl #3, stir together remaining flour, baking powder, and salt
  7. in bowl #4, stir together bananas, milk, and vanilla
  8. in bowl #5, beat the butter and sugar together with egg beaters until combined
  9. beat in eggs one at a time
  10. beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture, then 1/3 of the banana mixture, and repeat until all ingredients are combined
  11. stir in the chocolate chips to the mixture above
  12. sprinkle 1/3 of the streusel mixture over the bottom of the bundt pan
  13. spoon in half of the batter
  14. sprinkle the next third of streusel, then spoon in the rest of the batter, covering with the last third of streusel
  15. bake for 65-75 minutes, testing with a toothpick in the center of the cake
  16. cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, then invert the cake onto a plate
  17. wait until cooled completely (or as long as you can hold out – the cake was still warm when we cut into it!), slice, and serve!

yum!

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