Chocolate Banana Cake

• 2 (1 oz.) sq. unsweetened chocolate
• 1 c. butter or margarine, softened
• 2 3/4 c. sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 c. all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 c. mashed bananas
• 2/3 c. buttermilk
• 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
• 1 c. chopped pecans
• Chocolate Frosting (recipe follows)

1. Place chocolate
2. in
3. top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil.
4. Reduce
5. heat
6. to
7. low; cook until chocolate melts. Set aside to
8. cool.
9. Cream butter, gradually add sugar, beating well with
10. an
11. electric
12. mixer.
13. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after
14. each addition.
15. Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt;
16. add
17. to
18. creamed
19. mixture
20. alternately with banana, buttermilk
21. and
22. melted
23. chocolate,
24. beginning
25. and ending with flour mixture.
26. Mix
27. well after each addition.
28. Stir in vanilla and pecans.
29. Spoon batter into
30. 3
31. (9-inch) greased and floured round cake pans.
32. Bake at 350u0b0 for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick
33. inserted
34. in center comes out
35. clean.
36. Cool
37. in
38. pans
39. 10 minutes;
40. remove from pan and
41. cool
42. completely.
43. Spread Chocolate Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.

unsweetened chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, allpurpose, baking powder, baking soda, salt, bananas, buttermilk, vanilla, pecans, chocolate frosting

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=644306 (may not work)