Easy Banana Chocolate Chip Cake

Good Evening (or morning?)

This summer has both been extremely long and relaxing, and at the same time short and hectic. Even with these conflicting feeling it has no doubt been hot, and hard to be in the kitchen. There is no doubt this is why most people tend to bake more in the fall/winter. When being next to the hot oven is cozy and comforting, instead of sweaty and irritating. The heat usually doesn’t affect me very easily, but when my weekly baking came around it really hit me (hard in the gut). There was a part of me (the part that usually wins) that told me not to do it, and nobody will know. This is why I frequently find myself in the middle of projects from 3 years ago(ask me about a hook rug) and frequently starting new endeavors. So as I thought about my starting record versus my finishing record I made myself keep going(Yay me!).

            I was recently studying abroad in Ireland, and of course had to bring home a little bit of the Irish baking. Which surprise was a cookbook to add to my collection? This is where I chose to make my hot summer day recipe. The recipe I chose was a one-bowl banana chocolate chip cake. That way I was in the hot kitchen as little time as possible, but still have a beautiful product to show you guys (who ever you might be).

            I won’t spend an unnecessary amount of words telling you which ingredients to put in first. It really does not matter. The only thing you need to do is measure everything correctly, and make sure your butter is nice and soft. Other than that you can just about dump all the ingredients in the mixer bowl, and mix it all up.

            Once it was a beautiful batter I poured it into a bunt pan, but you can use any pan you would like (get crazy). The times will vary depending upon your choice of pan. The oven temp should be ____, and if you used a bunt pan like I did it should take about an hour to bake.

            While that is in the oven I made an easy cream cheese icing. Which just has cream cheese, powdered sugar, and some milk. The more milk you add the thinner it will become. I made mine pretty thin for esthetic purposes over my bunt cake. You can put the icing on however you may desire, and you are done! YAY!

Sweet Dreams (literally)

Cassidy

3 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp salt
3 Bananas (mashed)
1 cup softened butter
1/4 cup cream
1 3/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups chocolate chips(optional)