Firm favourite choc chip and banana loaf cake

This is a firm favourite in my household! I make it all the time and it never lasts long! Give it a go and you will see why! It's dead easy too! 

Ingredients 

(For 1x 2lb loaf tin)

2 ripe (or overripe!) bananas

2 tbsp milk

2 eggs

100g margerine

150g caster sugar

150g plain flour plus 1tbsp more for dusting the chocolate chips 

1tsp baking powder

1tsp bicarbonate of soda

100g chocolate chips

Ignore the fact that my quantities in the photos here look much bigger than yours! Here I tripled the recipe to make 3 cakes... Like I said, it doesn't last long!

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160C fan

2. Mash up the bananas in a bowl with a potato masher.

3. Add all the other cake ingredients, except the chocolate chips, to the bowl and mix together with a electric hand mixer.

4. Toss the chocolate chips in 1tbsp flour. Holly's hints- this helps prevent the chips from sinking to the bottom of the tin during cooking. 

5. With a mixing spoon, stir the chocolate chips through the cake batter until just evenly distributed.

6. Spoon the mixture into a lined 2lb loaf tin and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes. 

Holly's Hints- I use non stick loaf tin liners now, available from Lakeland in packs of 40 for around £4. They are so much easier than cutting out sheets of greased proof paper! And save the washing up too! 

When it's done a wooden skewer will come out clean and it will have shrunk away from the edges a little!

7. Slice it up and watch it go...