Healthy Chocolate Egg-Less Banana cake

After my kids’ recipe of cake in a mug, lot of mothers wrote to me or sent me a message that the recipes were wonderful and kids loved trying them. It feels really great when people get back to you and good feedback is so motivating.  But they wanted a healthier version of cake which they do not mind kids eating again and again. Had to put the thinking caps to figure out what could be done

The other problem that I face and I am sure other mothers would be facing  too that we want to feed our kids a fruit and esp Banana. We all know it is loaded with vitamins, minerals and lot of health benefits but the fruit is too naughty like our kids. It becomes dark and over ripe very fast. Kids need an excuse not to eat if it is black or soggy or it is not firm enough to eat. What you do with these bananas. I freeze the bananas to use later for my cakes or use one of these recipes to make a cake. It is whole wheat recipe so hope fully now the moms will be happy and kids because of chocolate. Pl note this recipe is small portion. I made 4 individual big muffins from this

Ingredients

• 5 to 2 over ripe Banana
• 2 tbsp olive oil or any other oil
• 4 tbsp castor sugar
• 6-8 tbsp of milk
• ½ tsp vanilla essence or Banana essence
• ½ cup Whole wheat flour or All purpose flour / Maida
• 3-4 tbsp Coco powder
• ½ tsp Baking Powder
• Pinch of salt
• Nuts or Choco-chips (optional)

Method:

• Mash the Banana well
• Sieve the dry ingredients Flour, coco powder, BP, salt and keep aside
• Take a bowl add the mashed banana, sugar, oil and about 5 tbsp of milk, essence. Mix well
• Add the dry ingredients
• Mix well with spoon and if you find the batter too thick pl add 2-3 tbsp of milk. The reason we controlled the milk portions is lot of time banana give the fluid as size may vary.
• Pour in greased mugs or four- five small bowls
• Bake in pre heated oven for 15-20 min at 180 degree Celsius
• You can also put chocochips before baking or nuts of your choice
• Serve them hot with some whipped cream or ice cream

My kids love this version of cake and lot of time they will unnecessarily fuss to eat so that I make this cake for them . Hope the Mom and  Dad are happy that kids are going to eat fruit with whole wheat