Marbled Choco-Banana Cake (Eggless)

I have always been marveling at marble cakes and their patterns! Now, having tried for myself, I know its so simple ;)

Marble Cake!

I have been awaiting to enjoy home-baked stuff for our weekend breakfasts. There is definitely a special flavor that gets added and makes home-made stuff tastier - probably all the care and anxiousness (for success of a new recipe!) and of course, it's made with lots of love! :)

Bananas cakes never fail me and this one was no exception! Even better, since it has chocolate as well - sumptuous 2-in-1 cake, isn't it?

Marble Chocolate-Banana Loaf Cake

Recipe Adapted From : Cooking Light Magazine, Sept 2003

You Need -

• All-purpose flour / Maida - 2 cups
• Baking soda - 3/4 tsp
• Salt - 2 pinches
• Bananas (medium sized) - 4
• Sugar - 1 cup  
• I think this can be reduced to 3/4 cup, it's sweet, even for a sweet-toothed person like me
• A better judgement would be to taste the sweetness of the bananas and then decide :) This bulb did not glow earlier when I made it! Anyways, next time :)
• Butter - 1/4 cup, softened  
• Bring to room temperature
• Yogurt (plain, unsweetened) - 1/3 cup  
• Home-made yogurt/curd works great!
• Low-fat works too!
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips - 1/2 cup

How To -

• Sieve the flour, baking soda and salt together.

• Cream butter and sugar and then add mashed bananas to the mixture. Use an electric mixer/blender and make into a puree.

• Add yogurt next and blend again.

• Stir in the flour mixture and beat at low speed. That's our banana batter.

• For the chocolate batter, microwave choc-chips for 2 minutes. By now, it's melted. Stir until smooth. Combine 1 cup of banana batter with the melted choc-chips and blend well. Our chocolate batter is ready!

Banana batter ready to be combined with melted choc chips

• Line your baking tray (I used my loaf pan) and then pour chocolate batter alternately with banana. To marble-ize the cake, swirl around with a knife through both colors of batter. The secret is out! :D

Ready to get baked!

• Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 deg C for about 80 minutes...yes, you have to wait quite long! The aroma is just amazing as it gets baked :) A clean bamboo skewer test tells us it's done.  Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan; then remove from pan and let cool completely on the rack.

I like to enjoy these slices as such, or as a sandwich with cream cheese in between! ;)
I can hear you laughing at me ~whats the point in eating brown rice! :)

We enjoyed this with a glass of fresh home-made Minty Mango Smoothie :)  That was a good breakfast!

Sending this to Khushi's event - Bake with your heart and to Vardhini's Bake Fest @Zesty Palette