Banana & Cadbury Chocolate Chunk Cake

This is a family favourite. It's moist, dense and has whole chunks of Cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate. Who wouldn't love this cake! It keeps really well and can be frozen in advance. This recipe is nearly as old as me, and won a competition in a magazine for amateur baker.

Ingredients

2 large ripe bananas (the more black the better!)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
175grams margarine
225grams granulated sugar
275grams self-raising flour
pinch salt
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 medium eggs beaten
150grams Cadburys chocolate/your favourite chocolate


Equipment

Saucepan
20cm round cake tin


Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 3, 325°F (170°C).
2. Peel & mash the bananas until smooth, mix in the vanilla essence.
3. Heat the margarine & sugar in a saucepan over a low heat until the sugar has completely dissolved.
4. Remove from the heat and stir in the sifted flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda.
5. Beat in the eggs & mashed banana. Don't worry if it looks curdled.
6. Leave the mixture to cool.
7. Stir in the chocolate chunks and then spoon the mixture into the round cake tin.
8. Bake for 1 hour+
9. Insert a skewer into the centre of the cake and if it comes out clean then the cake is cooked.