Banana Chocolate-Chip Tea Cake
- Vegetable oil for greasing pan
- 1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 scant cup (2 medium) mashed very ripe bananas
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup butter milk
- 6 ounces (1 cup plus 3 tablespoons) semisweet chocolate morsels
- 1/2 teaspoon confectioners' sugar
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly oil a fluted 10-cup Bundt pan.
- Using an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar until very soft, pale and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs one by one, then vanilla.
- Add mashed bananas; batter may look speckled and grainy.
- Add flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- Add buttermilk, and mix until smooth.
- Fold in chocolate morsels.
- Scrape batter into Bundt pan.
- Place pan on baking sheet in oven and bake until a tester inserted into cake comes out clean (except for melted chocolate), about 45 minutes.
- Cool cake in pan for about 10 minutes, then unmold onto a serving plate.
- Allow to cool another 15 minutes, then dust with confectioners' sugar passed through a fine mesh sieve.
- Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.
vegetable oil, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, bananas, flour, baking powder, baking soda, butter milk, chocolate, sugar
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/8464 (may not work)