Aunt Bertha’s Chocolate Cake Goes Bananas

I found a great chocolate cake recipe over on Easy Everyday Eats, the cutest blog with so many wonderful recipes to choose from. My husband was out of town, but I knew my five kids would have no trouble eating the entire cake. So, I was all ready to make Aunt Bertha’s Chocolate Cake as is, when I opened the fridge and saw three bananas that I had thrown in there to save. They needed to be used that day or be thrown out. Adding bananas meant reworking the recipe a bit to make sure it still had the power to rise. Bananas tend to be a little heavy. I also wanted to add a little more chocolate so that the bananas didn’t totally take over the cake. In the end, I decided it was a good thing that Aunt Bertha’s identity is a mystery, because her cake was a bit unrecognizable. I also camouflaged it with a basic seven- minute frosting.

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