coconut, chocolate chunk, ginger, banana bundt cake

This cake is a mouthful, in name and in practice. Chrissy Teigen doesn’t eff around with her recipes and I’ve been planning to make this banana cake for ages. Now that banana bread is everyone’s therapist, I decided I needed a full bundt cake. To myself.

Keep in mind, I’ve been lucky enough to spend the weekends with my sister, brother in law, and their two center-of-my-universe babies. But did I make this when I was with four other people? No.

I made it on a Wednesday, between seeing patients, at 2:30 in the afternoon.

This cake is a true event. Even I don’t have the audacity to call this banana “bread” and I have a whole section of recipes on this site that are cakes I pretend count as bread.

With shredded coconut, chocolate chunks, a heaping six bananas, vanilla pudding, and some last minute candied ginger – it’s coming to make a statement. It’s also dense and very moist and if you struggle with that word, this may not be the cake for you.

It was however the cake for me and only me, since even when I tried to share it with my family, I got no takers. Apparently leaving them with a carrot cake and ice cream cake from last weekend was “enough”.

So this cake is sliced up in my freezer and I’m enjoying it cold most nights as that is my preferred method of cake consumption. Between the 3 banana recipes on this site, I’d say the Meghan Markle/Joanne Chang tribute is my all time favorite – but this is my extra trying to make it through a global pandemic coping skills cake. There’s a time and a place for everything.

I’m not saying anyone needs an entire bundt cake – but also kinda yes we do…

coconut, chocolate chunk, ginger, banana cake

(from Chrissy Teigen via good housekeeping)

6 mashed bananas (about 2 cups)

4 large eggs

2/3 cup neutral oil

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 small box (3.5oz) vanilla pudding mix

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt

1 cup shredded coconut

3.5 oz dark chocolate chopped, or in chunks

1/3 cup rough chopped candied ginger

directions

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees and oil and flour your bundt pan like there’s no tomorrow. There’s enough going on in the world right now, we don’t need a cake sticking to a bundt pan.

In a large bowl, combine your mashed banana, eggs, and oil. In a separate large bowl, combine your flour, sugar, baking soda, vanilla pudding, and salt. Add the dry ingredients into your wet ingredients and gentle fold together until minimal flour streaks remain. Fold in the coconut, chocolate, and ginger.

Pour into your bundt pan and bake for 60-80 minutes, testing for doneness around 55 minutes just in case but mine took closer to 70. Let it cool slightly in the pan before turning out onto a cooling rack.

Let it cool before slicing. Or don’t. There are no rules anymore.

Enjoy.