Banana–Chocolate Chip Snack Cake

Name: Banana–Chocolate Chip Snack Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 cups (10 ounces), all-purpose flour; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces), sugar; 2 , large eggs; 1 cup mashed ripe, bananas (2 to 3 bananas); 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 cup, whole milk; 1 cup (6 ounces), semisweet chocolate chips

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2017

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

Dense, moist banana bread is great. But tender, fluffy banana snack cake is something else again.

SERVES8

TIME1½ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Unlike dense, moist banana bread, banana snack cake has a fluffy, tender crumb. To create this light structure, we beat softened butter with sugar, which incorporated air into the batter. We then added eggs, one at a time, and alternated ad...

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