Banana Coffee Cake Diamond
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 very ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 extra-large eggs
- 1 tablespoon coffee extract, or 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Garnish: confectioners' sugar
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- and grease and flour a 10-inch (3-quart) bundt pan, knocking out excess flour.
- Into a large bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In a small bowl stir together bananas and sour cream.
- In another large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in coffee extract (or espresso) and vanilla.
- Beat in flour mixture in batches alternately with banana mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, until batter is just combined.
- Spoon batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 50 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean and cake pulls away from side of pan.
- Cool cake in pan 10 minutes and invert onto a rack to cool completely.
- Let cake stand, wrapped tightly, at room temperature overnight.
- Dust cake with confectioners' sugar.
cake flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, very ripe bananas, sour cream, unsalted butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, coffee, vanilla, sugar
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/banana-coffee-cake-diamond-11799 (may not work)