Microwave Chocolate Banana Cake And Chocolate Sauce

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (gluten-free for allergies, such as rice flour or a mixture of soy and rice, corn etc)
• 1/2-1 cup sugar (or to taste) or 1/2-1 cup maple syrup (or to taste) or 1/2-1 cup golden syrup (or to taste)
• 1 ripe banana
• 3 -5 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup cold water (rice or soy milk for allergies) or 1 cup cold brewed coffee (rice or soy milk for allergies) or 1 cup orange juice (rice or soy milk for allergies) or 1 cup milk (rice or soy milk for allergies)
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring or 1 teaspoon almond flavoring or 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
• 2 teaspoons chocolate flavoring
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
• sugar or syrup
• 1 dash salt
• 1 cup milk or 1 cup rice milk or 1 cup vanilla-flavored soymilk
• allspice
• cornstarch, to thicken

Recipe

• 1 cake: sift dry ingredients into a bowl (if using thick flour such as soy, it can work better if you sift twice) in another bowl mash banana and mix with liquid ingredients.
• 2 combine and stir both together till well blended.
• 3 pour into a lightly oiled microwave cake dish (i use a ring dish).
• 4 cook high heat (use turntable) 6 to 8 minutes or until cake tests done.
• 5 sauce: in a bowl, mix a small amount of milk with cornstarch to create a paste.
• 6 in a saucepan, combine cocoa, sugar/syrup and salt.
• 7 gradually add milk and cornstarch mix until smooth.
• 8 cook, stirring constantly, until mixture boils.
• 9 reduce heat to medium-high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly until desired consistency.
• 10 stir in vanilla etc.
• 11 if mixture needs to thicken, take some out of saucepan and mix with cornstarch.
• 12 for vegan do not use milk [dairy].