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justxploring — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:45:27 GMT

Is this what you eat when you run out of Devil's food cake? :-)

Original Blog Entry: Chocolate-Banana Heaven Cake

angelm — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:50:49 GMT

Chocolate-Banana Heaven Cake

1. Ingredients
1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix (not pudding in the mix variety)
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup prepared Instant Coffee, cooled
4 medium ripe bananas, mashed
3 eggs
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon Instant Coffee
2 tablespoons milk, warmed
1 (8 ounce) package Cream Cheese, softened
3 (1 ounce) squares Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, melted
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup Chopped Pecans

2. Cooking Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans. Cover bottoms of pans with wax paper; set aside.
Combine cake mix and cocoa powder in large bowl. Add the prepared coffee, bananas, eggs and water; beat with electric mixer on low speed 30 sec., stopping frequently to scrape bottom and side of bowl. Beat on medium speed 2 min.; pour evenly into prepared pans.
Bake 30 to 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool 10 min.; remove from pans to wire racks. Immediately remove wax paper. Cool cake layers completely.
Dissolve 1 tsp. instant coffee in the warm milk. Beat cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add milk mixture; beat 2 min. Blend in melted chocolate. Add powdered sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Use to fill and frost cooled cake layers. Immediately press pecans into frosting on side of cake.