This recipe is excellent! We always double the batch when we make it. My loaf pans are quite small so I can usually make a couple different sizes of them. 1/2CUP sugar 1/2CUP vegetable oil 2 eggs 3 ripe bananas, mashed juice and zest of 1 blood orange (any orange works) 1/2CUPS cocoa 1 3/4CUPS flour 1/2TSP baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2TSP Salt We like to use 3 bowls. One for the vegetable oil& eggs. One with the bananas and another for the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder/soda & salt. Mash all the bananas well. Stir the flour bowl til well combined. Beat the eggs and oil together.
Mix in your eggs into your mashed bananas and combine well. Zest 1 orange into egg mixture and squeeze all orange juice from orange into egg mixture. Mix well.
Pour your flour mixture into your egg mixture and combined well til all flour is gone.Spray your loaf pans with non stick spray, parchment works and pour your batter into pans. Loaves pans bake in preheated 325F oven for approximately 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted. The smaller pans which are half the thickness take about 20-30minutes.
Cook for a couple minutes then flip out of pan and cool on cooling racks.
The orange flavour really comes out with the cocoa and then the banana flavour. Yum!! We hope your family enjoys it as much as we do.
