No Egg No Butter Chocolate Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Sometimes my choice of recipes are made because of lack of ingredients, like this no egg no butter chocolate banana cake. While I do have butter, I ran out of eggs. So I ended up baking a rather healthy cake that's worth making again! Original recipe here, and my tweaks below.

No Egg No Butter Chocolate Banana Cake

2 cups flour, sifted
1 1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 cup hot water
1/4 cup oil
4 large bananas, mashed

Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Grease and flour an 8 (9 also can) inch pan and set aside.
Mash the bananas in a bowl.
Sieve flour, cocoa powder and baking soda in a large bowl.
In a separate bowl, add the hot water, apple cider vinegar, oil to the sugar and melt the sugar completely. Add the banana puree and mix.
Add the flour mixture and mix well. Don't overmix.
Pour into baking tin and bake for 50 minutes.

I made some simple cream cheese frosting (250g cream cheese + 100g butter + 3 cups icing sugar) to pipe on the cake and brought over for a family gathering. The cake comes out moist and not too chocolaty. I somehow have figured how cakes without eggs taste like, while they are moist, the cake has this distinct taste which is more crispy and sweet and if there's eggs it's more lemak.

Princess helped with the sprinkles and posed for a photo of course.

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