Low Fat Desserts Recipes - Chocolate Banana Cake

Ingredients

• 225g self raising flour

• 45ml fat reduced cocoa powder

• 115g soft light brown sugar

• 30ml malt extract

• 30ml golden syrup

• 2 eggs, beaten

• 60ml skimmed milk

• 60ml sunflower oil

• 2 large ripe bananas

• For the icing

• 175g icing sugar, sifted

• 30ml fat reduced cocoa powder, sifted

• 15-30ml warm water

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 160'C/325"F/Gas 3. Line and grease a deep 20cm/8in round cake tin. Sift the flour into a mixing  bowl with the cocoa powder. Stir in the sugar.

2. Make a well in the centre and add the malt extract, golden syrup, eggs, milk and oil. Mix well. Mash the bananas thoroughly and stir them into the mixture until thoroughly combined.

3. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 1-1 1/4, hours or until the centre of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. Remove the cake from the tin and turn on to a wire rack to cool.

4. Make the icing: put the icing sugar and cocoa in a mixing bowl and gradually add enough water to make a mixture thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. Pour over the top of the cake and ease to the edges, allowing the icing to dribble down the sides.