Upside Down Chocolate Banana Bread

Does banana bread count towards your 5 a day?

2 hours cook

Serves 6-8

Hugh Woodward

Ingredients

What you'll need:

260gplain flour

40gcocoa powder

1 tspbaking soda

1/2 tspfine salt

150gfinely chopped dark chocolate

120gunsalted, soft butter

150gcaster sugar

2 largeeggs

60gsour cream

4 bananas, very ripe

1 tspvanilla extract

3 tbspsoft brown sugar

3 largesemi-ripe bananas

Who cares! This decadent, deviant version of banana bread will stop you worrying about petty health concerns. It's sinfully full of chocolate with a caramelised banana crust. It's great. You'd want to marry this recipe.

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Chuck in the chopped chocolate.

Using an electric hand whisk or a stand mixer, whisk together the butter and caster sugar, until the mixture has lightened and is fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, keeping whisking between each addition.

Add the sour cream, bananas and vanilla essence.

Now, line a 20cm baking tin and scatter the sugar on the bottom. Carefully slice the bananas lengthways and arrange them in a pattern on the base of the tin, cut side down.

Bake for 30 minutes, then cover with foil for the final 30 minutes.