Banana Chocolate Chip Pecan Bundt Cake

Cake for breakfast? Yes, please. I need to spend the next several weeks choosing recipes focused on using up ingredients that I have stockpiled. We learned the hard way that baking chocolate doesn’t travel well when my med school roommate accidentally took a box of my kitchen supplies to Miami last year. This week, it’s time to use the bananas that I saved in my freezer for future banana bread endeavors. There is a very narrow window of ripe-ness in which Kev will eat bananas, though I’m starting to wonder if it’s a ploy for more banana bread. 

This recipe is based off of one in my Best of the Bundt recipe book. I love banana bread in its many forms, but this bundt cake is next level great. This recipe is a 2018 repeat-offender on special request from a co-intern. I initially made this for a long weekend shift on a very grey weekend as a morale booster. I later learned that the cake was so popular, slices were stashed in white coat pockets (hopefully at least wrapped in paper towels) for fear it would disappear. Best part is that it is easy to whip up and feeds a crowd! If you are new to baking, banana bread is a great place to start. 

Banana Chocolate Chip Pecan Bundt Cake

2018-04-04 18:29:38

Makes one 10-12 cup Bundt cake

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Prep Time

20 min

Cook Time

1 hr 10 min

Prep Time

20 min

Cook Time

1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

1. 1 3/4 cups sugar
2. 2/3 cup (10.6 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened
3. 3 ripe bananas, mashed
4. 2 large eggs
5. 1 tsp vanilla extract
6. 3 cups all-purpose flour
7. 1 1/3 cups buttermilk
8. 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
9. 1 tsp baking soda
10. 3/4 tsp salt
11. 1 cup dark chocolate chunks
12. 1 cup pecans, chopped (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour the Bundt pan and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, mix sugar, butter, bananas, eggs, and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy.
3. Add buttermilk, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix until just combined.
4. Fold in chocolate chunks and pecans (if using).
5. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake 70-80 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes on a wire rack, then invert onto rack to cool completely.
6. Dust with powdered sugar if desired for decoration.

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