Banana Cake with Dark Chocolate Chips (Sugar-free)

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 large eggs

  room temperature
• 80-150 g Monk fruit brown sweetener

  or brown sugar
• 100 ml vegetable oil

  I used olive oil
• 200 g bananas

  about 3. Plus 1 more for decoration
• 150 g cake flour
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 1 tbsp chocolate chips

  or more if you fancy
• ½ tsp fine salt
• 1 tsp Kahlua or espresso coffee

  this is optional

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 160°C / 320°F (convection oven), 175°C / 347°F (conventional
  oven).
• 2 Line load tin with baking paper. 
• 3 Mash 200g or 3 bananas.
  
  Optional for decoration: use 1 more banana and slice thinly for top decoration
  on the cake.
• 4 Put 3 large eggs (room temperature), 80-150g Monk fruit brown sweetener (or
  sugar, season to taste) into food mixer with whisk attachment, and mix at high
  speed until ribbon stage. This takes about 5-6 minutes. The batter will increase
  in volume and turn pale and foamy.
• 5 Sift 150g cake flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp fine
  salt into the batter. Use a spatula to fold until dry ingredients are well-mixed
  into the batter but do not over mix. 
• 6 Add 100ml oil, mashed bananas, 1 tsp vanilla essence (and optional 1 tsp Kahlua
  or espresso coffee), and mix everything together with a spatula. Batter will not
  be smooth but it should well-mixed with no signs of flour.
• 7 Transfer the batter into a loaf tin and tap a few times to release air
  bubbles. Use a chopstick or skewer to poke or swirl through the batter to
  release air bubbles.
• 8 Bake in preheat oven for about 45-60 minutes.
  
  Cake is ready when you insert a chopstick or skewer into the middle of the cake
  and it comes out clean. The second test is to gently press on the top of the
  cake, if it springs back, it's good to go.
• 9 Optional to decorate the cake: Remove the cake from the oven once the top starts
  to brown and firm up, around 10-15 minutes into the baking time. Quickly place
  the banana slices and chocolate chips on top of the cake and place it back into
  the oven to complete the baking.
• 10 Cool the cake in the loaf tin on a cooling rack. 
• 11 Serve at room temperature. 

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