Quick and easy chocolate chip cake recipe that's packed with ripe bananas and chocolate chips. This banana sheet cake is soft, moist and can serve a crowd at parties or picnics.
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Today, I am sharing an incredible way to enjoy bananas. This sheet cake is super soft and airy. It's packed with delicious banana flavor and loads of chocolate chips plus it's an awesome way to use up those overripe bananas. That cream cheese frosting topping really takes it over the top. Trust me when I say this: Don't skip the frosting! I have tried without it and it's just mediocre and my family agrees too.
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How to Make Easy Banana Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe From Scratch?
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder and keep aside.
- In another mixing bow, mix together butter, sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla extract, mashed bananas until smooth.
- Dump the dry mixture into this wet mixture and mix until just combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Bake.
- Let the cake cool down and frost it in icing.
Tips and techniques
- Use RIPE bananas. The riper, the better because it adds a lot of sweetness and banana flavor to this cake.
- You can REPLACE chocolate chips with any other add-ins of your choice like walnuts or pecans.
- DON'T replace butter with oil because butter give this cake a richer flavor.
- Yogurt can be replaced withs our cream or vice versa but make sure you are using full fat versions. I, personally, prefer the sour cream chocolate chip cake.
- BOTH, granulated and brown sugar, need to be used in this recipe for the perfect level of sweetness.
- Bananas are naturally very sweet and based on how sweet they are and how sweet you like your cakes, you can ADJUST the amount of sugar.
- You can use a 9x13 cake pan too but you will have to INCREASE the baking time by about 5-6 minutes.
- Use MINI chocolate chips because the regular sized chocolate chips tend to sink to the bottom of the cake.
Variations
- For chocolate chip cake recipe with cake mix, use a yellow cake mix and follow box instructions plus add 2 rips bananas and stir in ½- ¾ cups chocolate chips.
- For*chocolate chip coffee cake, make a streusel crumb topping and toss that on top of the cake prior to baking. Omit the frosting because the crumbling is sweet enough,
- For *mint chocolate chip cake, replace cream cheese frosting with mint frosting.
- For strawberry chocolate chip cake, replace cream cheese frosting with strawberry frosting.
- For pumpkin chocolate chip cake, you can replace bananas with the same quantity of pumpkin and can you also use a pumpkin spice frosting.
- For double chocolate chip cake recipe, use recipe below to make banana chocolate chip cake with chocolate frosting instead of cream cheese frosting.
- For zucchini version, replace bananas with the same quantity of finely shredded zucchini (remove excess water).
- For birthday cake flavor, use circle cake pans and make a layer cake, filled and frosted with cream cheese icing.
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Recipe
Banana Chocolate Chip Cake {Banana Sheet Cake}
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Ingredients
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
- ½ cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- 1 cup Granulated sugar
- ¼ cup Brown sugar
- 2 Eggs Large
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1 cup Bananas Ripe, Mashed, About 2-3 large bananas
- ½ cup Sour cream OR yogurt, Full Fat
- ¾ cup Chocolate chips Mini, Coated in some flour to prevent sinking
- 2 cups Cream cheese frosting
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder. Keep aside.
- In another mixing bowl, cream together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, vanilla extract, mashed bananas, sour cream and mix until smooth and creamy.
- Dump the dry flour mixture into this wet mixture and mix until just combined.
- Coat chocolate chips in some flour and STIR these coated chocolate chips in the batter. Don't mix them aggressively!
- Pour batter in a greased/ floured rectangle baking pan (Dimensions: 10x15). Spread it with a spatula.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick in the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool down completely.
- Ice the top of the cake with cream cheese frosting and toss some chocolate chips, if you like. Enjoy!
Notes
- Read all my tips above.
- You can omit the chocolate chips and make just a simple banana sheet cake.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
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RavieNomNoms
This is so much fun! I love seeing your posts, you are so creative!
Uru
Banana and chocolate chips? I am so in
Amanda
This dessert looks so delicious! I cannot wait to try it out!
Naptime
This looks incredible! I love the chocolate chip + banana combo!
Katerina
This looks incredibly delicious!! The perfect dessert!!
Sabrina
This cake looks perfect! I love chocolate and banana together but thanks for all the extra ideas for variations. This will become my new go to for cake!
Jen
My kids are going to love this! We just happen to have some overripe bananas on the counter right now. Yay for cake!
Erin
This looks heavenly!
Krista
I know I would have to have two slices for sure!