Healthier Chocolate Banana Cake

I'm always looking for healthy breakfast choices. I watch my sugar and carbs and breakfast can get a little boring for me. After months and months of eating wasa crips, Weight Watchers cereal, fruit, hard boiled eggs, etc., I was feeling the need for a treat in the morning. I found this recipe ages ago and clipped it out of a magazine. I can't even tell you what magazine or who the author was, so if this is your recipe, please let me know!

It's not "healthy, healthy" hence the title of "healthier", but if you use dark chocolate chips and leave out the mini chips on top, it's not too bad at all. I used Truvia Brown Sugar blend so that kept the sugars down.

This makes a small 8x8 cake. I can tell you it tastes just as good as an "unhealthy" cake cause my boys both ate most of it on me. I had a piece for breakfast on Sunday morning and was anticipating another slice for Monday morning, but when I woke up my cake pan was empty. That's life with two teenage boys in the house! Nothing is safe!

It's a delicious little cake.



Healthier Chocolate Banana Cake
recipe from Lisa@The Cutting Edge of Ordinary
PRINTABLE RECIPE
3 medium bananas
¾ cup brown sugar (or 1⁄4 cup + 1⁄8 cup of Truvia Brown Sugar Blend)
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Dash salt
1 cup dark chocolate chips (optional)
Mini chips for sprinkling on top

Preheat the oven to 350. Coat an 8 inch pan with cooking spray. Place the bananas in a bowl and whip them with an electric mixer for approximately 1 minute. Stir in the brown sugar and beat to combine. Add in the applesauce, vanilla and egg. Hand stir to combine. In a separate bowl mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Add to the banana mixture. Stir to combine. Add in chocolate chips if you are using them and gently fold to combine. Pour into prepared dish. Top with mini chips if desired. Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.