Recipe: Yummy Vegan Banana & Pineapple Cake With Dark Chocolate Chunks

Vegan Banana & Pineapple Cake With Dark Chocolate Chunks. Bananas are a vegan's best friend in the kitchen when it comes to baking. Just keep in mind that whatever you use banana in will taste like, well, bananas! Also, adding banana may increase baking time, especially in cakes.

Stir in almond milk and vinegar. Measure the correct amount of banana and add it to your blender jug along with the soy milk and coconut oil (or vegan butter) and blend until smooth. Pour the blended mix over your dry ingredients in the mixing bowl and mix it into a smooth batter. You can have Vegan Banana & Pineapple Cake With Dark Chocolate Chunks using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vegan Banana & Pineapple Cake With Dark Chocolate Chunks

It's of For the batter:.
Prepare 1 of ripe banana, mashed,.
It's 100 g of pineapple pieces in natural juice, (chopped up if large),.
It's 200 g of plain flour,.
It's 100 g of caster sugar,.
It's 60 ml of vegetable oil,.
You need 60 ml of unsweetened almond milk, or other non dairy alternative,.
It's 1 tsp of cinnamon,.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla essence,.
You need 1 tsp of baking soda,.
You need 1/2 tsp of baking powder,.
You need 1/2 tsp of salt,.
It's of Spray oil for greasing (can use regular too but this is easier).
Prepare of Filling:.
You need 45 g of vegan dark organic chocolate, cut into small chunks,.
You need of To top:.
You need 1 of banana sliced lengthwise into halves,.
It's 2 tsp of raw organic cacao nibs.
Prepare of To serve (optional):.
It's of Melted chocolate, for drizzling,.
It's of Vegan marshmallows.

Add chopped walnuts (optional) and fold in. Add the bananas, vegan buttermilk and coconut oil to a blender jug and blend briefly until combined. Don't overblend or the bananas will start to oxidize. Perfectly sweet, moist, and topped with a brown sugar crust, this delicious banana bread is super easy to make and customizable with your favorite stir-ins.

Vegan Banana & Pineapple Cake With Dark Chocolate Chunks step by step

Preheat your oven to 180 (fan), or gas mark 6. Line the bottom of a loaf tin with a rectangle of greaseproof paper and spray the sides well with oil. You can also use regular oil but I find it much easier to use a spray one. Set aside..
In a large mixing bowl add all of the dry ingredients first listed in the batter section of the ingredients list. Then add the wet ingredients and mix well but gently, until a smooth yet thick batter is formed..
Add in the chunks of chocolate and fold in gently, ensuring not to overwork the batter too much, as this will result in a denser texture..
Pour the mixture into your lined greased tin, and smooth out neatly up into all corners. Take the banana cut in half and lay it on top and push into the batter a bit so they are level with the top..
Sprinkle over a few cacao nibs, then bake on the middle shelf of your oven for 50-60 minutes. Check with a cocktail stick or fine metal skewer by piercing into the centre to see if it's done. Leave to cool for a couple of minutes, loosen the sides using a knife And carefully turn out and leave to cool on a wire rack. Remember to peel off the paper from the base if it's not in the tin..
Whilst the loaf is still hot from the oven you can place the marshmallows on top of the loaf to go all melty or as I did, serve with a slice on the side and a drizzle of melted chocolate over the top. It's fluffy, light, moist and super delicious. You'll find it hard to stop at just one slice! :).

Banana bread is easy to veganize by adding extra banana, which acts as a binder, replacing the need for eggs or other egg replacers. And as an added benefit, it also helps to lessen the amount of sugar needed. The trick is to use very ripe, freckled bananas, because the riper your bananas are, the less sugar you'll need! How to Make Vegan Banana Cream Pie. The crust is my go-to almond-oat creation that I discovered while making my Peanut Butter and Jelly Snack Bars (<- serious yum, btw).