This no-bake Chocolate Banana Cake is made with only 2 ingredients! A super delicious chocolate cake prepared without baking, egg, oil, flour, gelatine, or cream. The combination of bananas and chocolate makes the cake creamy and silky, without feeling too heavy.
No-Bake Chocolate Banana Cake
This chocolate cake dessert is easy and simple to make at home with just chocolate and banana. It only takes 10 minutes to prepare, and the flavor of this dessert is delightful, and the texture is rich, smooth, and creamy like chocolate mousse.
This chocolate banana cake is best served chilled, so it makes an excellent dessert for hot days, but it can be enjoyed all year round as a cold dessert.
When you mix mashed bananas with melted chocolate and then chill it in the fridge, it becomes thick and chewy, like fudge or a flourless chocolate cake.
This is an excellent dessert for those who want to avoid flour and baking.
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Why You'll Love This Chocolate Banana Cake
- Only Two Ingredients: Chocolate and bananas.
- Quick, Simple, and Easy to Make: You will have a cake in ten minutes.
- No Oven or No-Bake: You don’t need an oven to make this wonderful, rich, smooth, and creamy Chocolate Banana Cake.
- Make in Advance: You can make this cake 1 or 2 days in advance and keep it in the fridge until you're ready to serve it.
- Suitable for Any Occasion: Holidays, brunch, lunch, dinner, etc.
🧾Chocolate Banana Cake Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make this chocolate banana cake:
- Bananas: I like to use ripe bananas, and overripe ones work great too. They add a wonderfully creamy, soft, smooth, and silky texture to the cake, along with natural sweetness. Just make sure to mash them until there are no lumps.
- Dark Chocolate: I prefer using dark chocolate because it gives a rich, dense chocolatey flavor and helps to stabilize and thicken the cake. If you prefer a sweeter dessert, you can use milk chocolate instead. Just make sure to melt the chocolate first.
See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
👩🏻🍳How to Make Chocolate Banana Cake
These step-by-step instructions and photos will help you to visualize how to make this recipe. See the recipe card for a printable version of this recipe.
1. Put the ripe banana slices into a high-speed food processor or blender and blend for 1 to 2 minutes.
2. Transfer the blended banana into a large bowl.
3. Chop the dark chocolate into small pieces and put them in a bowl that can handle the heat.
4. Heat a saucepan with a few centimeters of water until it simmers. Place the bowl with chocolate over the saucepan, ensuring it doesn't touch the water, and melt the chocolate.
5. Pour the melted chocolate onto the blended bananas and gently mix the chocolate and bananas.
6. Put the mixture into a 15 cm removable mold and place it in the refrigerator for 8 hours.
7. Take out the cake mold and cut it into pieces to serve.
📖Variations
- Add Spices: For extra flavor, try adding spices like cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, or mint.
- Topping: For added texture and flavor, mix in fresh fruit, dried fruit, granola, nuts, biscuits, caramel, or marshmallows.
- Instant Coffee Powder: For extra flavor, add 1.5 teaspoons of instant coffee powder.
- Add Chocolate Chip: Add 50 g chocolate chips.
- Salt: Add a pinch of salt to enhance the flavor of the chocolate.
💭Tips for Recipe Success
Use Ripe or Overripe Bananas: Let the bananas ripen before peeling, cutting, and using them. That way, you'll always be ready to make this tasty banana cake whenever you have ripe bananas.
Use a Food Processor or Blender: A food processor or blender is great for pureeing the bananas. Just make sure it’s powerful enough to get them creamy and soft.
Storage: Store leftover cake in an airtight container in the fridge for 4-5 days.
❓Commonly Asked Questions
Yes. Chocolate Banana Cake is without sugar, oil, flour, or egg and it is lower in fat and calories than regular chocolate cake.
🍰More Cake Recipes to Make
Love this Banana Chocolate Cake? You’ll also enjoy these delicious cakes:
- Yogurt Cake
- Molotof Cake
- Flourless Chocolate Cake
- Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Lemon Pudding Cake
- Bishop's Cake
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📖 Recipe
No-Bake Chocolate Banana Cake
Ingredients
- 3 Bananas
- 200 g Dark Chocolate
Instructions
- Peel ripe bananas, and slice them into pieces.
- Place ripe banana slices into a high-speed food processor or blender.
- Blend on high for 1 to 2 minutes until smooth.
- Place in a large bowl.
- Cut the dark chocolate into small pieces and place in a heatproof bowl.
- Bring a saucepan with a few cm of water to a simmer. Set the bowl over the simmering water, making sure the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl.
- Melt the chocolate.
- Pour the melted chocolate over the blended bananas and carefully fold the chocolate into the bananas.
- Place the mixture into a 15 cm removable mold and refrigerate for 8 hours.
- Remove the cake mold.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered an estimate only. Actual nutritional content will vary based upon brands used, measuring methods, cooking method, portion sizes, and more.
John says
Super easy and looks delicious
Carl says
Do you taste any of the banana?
Estefania says
Hi Carl, yes you will be able to taste the banana too, however, as you can imagine chocolate flavor is more dominant in this cake.