Banana Espresso Coffee Cake with Chocolate Chips

Shared By: Marium Hamid, Arksansas (USA)

Banana Espresso Coffee Cake with Chocolate Chips

Ingredients:

1. 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
2. 1 cup sugar
3. 1/2 cup brown sugar
4. 2 sticks unsalted butter, melted
5. 1/2 cup whole milk
6. 2 eggs
7. 3 cup flour
8. 3 tsp instant espresso powder
9. 3 tsp baking soda
10. 2 tsp  salt
11. 2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

For glaze

1. 2 cup sifted powdered sugar
2. 3-4 Tbsp strong coffee or espresso

Method:

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• In a medium bowl, stir together mashed bananas, sugars, butter, milk, and egg.
• In another medium bowl, whisk together the flour, espresso powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the well and stir until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
• Pour batter into a greased bundt pan.
• Bake in the center of the oven for about 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let it cool in the pan for 15 minutes.
• Turn out onto a cooling rack with parchment paper below and let sit for about 30 more minutes.
• When cake is barely warm to the touch, make the glaze by mixing the powdered sugar and coffee together with a whisk. You want it to be pourable, but still quite thick.
• Pour it over the cake, letting it run down the sides, into the middle, and onto the parchment paper below.
• Let it harden for about 15 minutes.