Banana Chocolate Chip Cake

Name: Banana Chocolate Chip Cake {Banana Sheet Cake}
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 2 cups All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Baking soda; 1/4 tsp Baking powder; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 1/2 cup Butter (Unsalted, Room temperature); 1 cup Granulated sugar; 1/4 cup Brown sugar; 2 Eggs (Large); 1 tsp Vanilla extract; 1 cup Bananas (Ripe, Mashed, About 2-3 large bananas); 1/2 cup Sour cream (OR yogurt, Full Fat); 3/4 cup Chocolate chips (Mini, Coated in some flour to prevent sinking); 2 cups Cream cheese frosting

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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.

Today, I am sharing the BEST, MOIST chocolate chip cake recipe.

It’s super soft and packed with delicious banana flavor plus it’s an awesome way to use up those overripe bananas.

Now, I should make it clear that this is NOT chocolate chip pound cake or a chocolate chip bundt cake. Both of those cakes have firmer textures. This one is more airy.

This is also NOT a chocolate chip cookie cake, which looks like a giant cookie and has a cookie texture instead of a cake texture.

This is a simple, classic banana sheet cake with chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting

Tips for Easy Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe:

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 9×13 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.

Flavor Variations for Banana Chocolate Chip Cake:

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 1/2- 3/4 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 chocolate chip cake, replace bananas with the same quantity of finely shredded zucchini (remove excess water).
For chocolate chip birthday cake recipe, use circle cake pans and make a layer cake, filled and frosted with cream cheese icing.

How to Make Chocolate Chip Cake 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. Enjoy!

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