Dark Chocolate Banana Cake With Delicate Lime Toffee Sauce Recipe

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Dark Chocolate Banana Cake With Delicate Lime Toffee Sauce
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Ingredients
20
Count
Nutrition
715
Calories
Total time
75
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
  2. Grease and place grease-proof paper in one 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
  3. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or use a small dish standing in a saucepan of boiling water that comes half way up the sides on low heat.
  4. Mash the bananas on a plate.
  5. In a large bowl mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt and baking powder.
  6. In a separate bowl mix together milk, eggs, coffee (2 tsps to one measuring cup of boiling water, don't use your favourite coffee cup !), oil, vanilla and cider vinegar.
  7. Add the milk mixture, the mashed banana and the melted chocolate to the flour mixuture stirring thouroughly with a wooden spoon until combined. The batter will be thin.
  8. Pour into prepared pan.
  9. Bake until top of cake springs back when pressed and cake tester inserted comes out clean. (About 35 - 40 minutes.).
  10. Let cool then turn out onto wire rack.
  11. Delicate Lime Toffee Sauce.
  12. Put water and extra sugar in saucepan and melt on a low heat.
  13. Turn heat up to medium and cook until sugar reaches soft crack stage. (drip a little of syrup into cold water, if it sets firmly but doesn't quite break with a snap its ready) (About 5 - 6 minutes).
  14. Stir in the lime juice and cook for 30 seconds to 1 minute then remove from heat.
  15. To serve cut cake into 4 inch squares, one per person. Place on dessert plate with one rolled scoop of vanilla icecream. Pour a little lime sauce over icecream and half of the slice of cake. Decorate with lime zest to garnish.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 715.18 Kcal (2994 kJ)
Calories from fat 232.3 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 25.81g 40%
Cholesterol 64.15mg 21%
Sodium 906.66mg 38%
Potassium 710.38mg 15%
Total Carbs 113.09g 38%
Sugars 68.06g 272%
Dietary Fiber 4.97g 20%
Protein 9.79g 20%
Vitamin C 8.8mg 15%
Iron 2.4mg 14%
Calcium 169.1mg 17%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 230.69 Kcal (966 kJ)
Calories from fat 74.93 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 8.33g 40%
Cholesterol 20.69mg 21%
Sodium 292.46mg 38%
Potassium 229.14mg 15%
Total Carbs 36.48g 38%
Sugars 21.95g 272%
Dietary Fiber 1.6g 20%
Protein 3.16g 20%
Vitamin C 2.8mg 15%
Iron 0.8mg 14%
Calcium 54.5mg 17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 15.7
    Points
  • 19
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar

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