Guilt-Free Double Chocolate Banana Cake with Pecans
This double chocolate flourless banana cake with pecans has no added sugar, instead getting its sweetness from very ripe bananas. It is a moist and delicious dessert that you can happily share with family and friends. You will not feel guilty because it is a healthy dessert.
A Gift Of Cake
If you follow this blog, you have probably read about my husband’s medical journey. The left side of his pelvis was shattered in 4 places from a fall in the middle of the night. Surgery was necessary to reconstruct the pelvis and plates and screws were needed to restore stability.
He has spent over two months in hospitals and rehab skilled nursing facilities healing. Unfortunately, it will take many weeks before he will manage to return home. We have been told that it will take a year for the bones to completely heal.
During these past months of hospitalization, our friends have been stopping by to visit. These visits help to keep his spirits up. Our friends have brought get well cards and flowers. They have also brought lots of tasty little treats, like cookies and cake.
One of our friends, John, stops by almost every day to visit my husband. Last week, he brought slices of homemade cake. The cake was from his lovely wife Nancy. She is known for her healthy cooking and baking. One of her healthy desserts is a flourless chocolate banana cake that she baked for my husband.
The moist cake was delicious and was hard to resist. It quickly disappeared with only a few crumbs left on the plate. Still, we didn’t feel guilty because the cake is gluten-free and doesn’t have any added sugar.
A Recipe For Sharing
Nancy included the recipe along with the chocolate banana cake. I felt that was a very nice gesture. To pay it forward, my husband and I thought it would be nice to share the recipe with my readers. I hope you will enjoy this easy to prepare cake as much as we did.
Flourless Double Chocolate Banana Cake With Pecans
Preheat the over to 350 degrees
Ingredients
- 3 bananas
- 4 eggs, separated
- 2 Tbsp. unsweetened cacao powder
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 c. pecans
- 1 c. semisweet mini chocolate chips
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
Instructions: This cake is simple to make and very adaptable. If you don’t care for pecans, walnuts would make a great substitute.
- Grease and dust a 8-9 inch round or square cake pan with cacao powder.
- Separate the eggs, whites in a medium bowl and the yolks into a large bowl. Mash the bananas in the large bowl with the yolks.
- Add the cacao and blend with a stick blender.
- Add vanilla and baking powder and blend.
- Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt and/or the cream of tartar until there are medium peaks.
- Fold the eggs whites into the banana mixture.
- Pour into prepared baking pan.
- Sprinkle the top with chocolate chips and then cover with pecans.
- Bake at 350 for 35 – 40 minutes. Test for doneness, a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake should come out clean.
- Let cool before slicing. Garnish with fresh berries, if you wish.
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Sharing a gift of food when someone needs cheering up is a heartwarming act. It offers joy to both the giver and the receiver. I’m sharing my friend’s recipe as a “thank you” for your kind words and wishes. Your compassion during my husband’s traumatic injury and healing process is greatly appreciated.
The next time you send a friend some homemade cookies or cake to cheer them up, include the recipe. It is a kind gesture. Your friends can enjoy the tasty treat again and again when they feel better.
Many thanks to you and Nancy for this delightful treat! I’m so sorry your husband will be dealing with his recovery for so long. I’m glad you have good friends taking care of your both.
You know how I love flourless and sugarless dessert recipes so thank you for paying forward. This looks fantastic and luscious and the best part…no guilt! I am definitely going to make this treat very soon.
This cake looks so good, thanks for passing on the recipe. You are blessed with kind friends. My thoughts are with you and your husband.
The cake sounds and looks splendid and John / Nancy are such thoughtful and wonderful friends.
It’s nice to hear an update on your husband, I know it feels like an eternity with all the therapy and healing process, but he’ll get there. It’s a gift to have good friends that come by to visit and break up your day with a treat. The chocolate banana cake looks delicious!
Looks delicious! Maggie
That sounds delicious Karen – I love pecans and I’m sure the ripe bananas taste much better than sugar.
I’m glad your husband is on the mend, albeit slowly. It makes such a difference to have lots of vistors to cheer him up. My aunt broke her leg last year and she had to have it in a fixed position for months and couldn’t go home or get out of bed. Fortunately it seems to be much better now.
This looks very tasty!
This looks absolutely wonderful, Karen, and thank you for sharing it. You’ve been in my head a lot and I didn’t know how to reach out but I hope your husband is doing well and in the recovery mode. If you feel comfortable with it, please update us when you can. Meanwhile, I send all best wishes and hope you’ll soon be able to travel again!
Such a lovely idea to pay the recipe forward. Wishing your husband a full – even if slow- recovery. I’m so pleased you seem to have many kind people to support you.
Am truly holding your husband in my thoughts hoping the ‘vibes’ from around the world somehow make a somewhat ‘mystical’ difference in his growing wellbeing. Having spent four months in the last three years in hospital beds with arms which do not and will not work normally, I well understand his probable feeling-world. Hope he has interests he can follow from bed !!! Am not a cake person as a rule but bananas and nuts > yes, me too 🙂 ! Thank you!
This looks like one delicious dessert from a special friend. Hope your husband continues on his rehab journey to get back home as soon as possible. We had snow yesterday. I’m hoping you had sunshine. 🙂
Thank you for paying it forward with this wonderful recipe. Wishing each day that your husband will feel better and be on the mend!
Friends are always a blessing, but particularly in hard times. John’s daily visit must be a big boost for your husband. Wishing you all the best as you navigate these tough times. And the cake looks delicious too!
Wishing you and your husband all the very best in these difficult times!
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What a delicious treat.
I will continue to pray for your husband. I am so happy you have supportive friends to keep his spirits up.
Happy Easter to you my friend.
It certainly looks tasty Karen. 😃 People are so kind, and it is good to hear you have friends nearby visiting constantly. I am sure it is cheering for your husband as he must be feeling rather frustrated. I hope he continues to heal well and my thoughts are with you both. Take care of yourself Karen!
Oh, and I love that idea of including the recipe with a gift of cake! 💕
I am so sorry your husband has been going through all of this and hope he progresses towards the goal line of returning home each day. In the meantime I can’t wait to try your delicious guilt free double chocolate banana cake with pecans. (Healthy World Cuisine)
Thank you Karen and Nancy for the recipe! What wonderful friends you have.
Sounds delicious! I like that it’s not too sweet.
Terribly sorry to hear about your husband’s health issues. Wishing him a speedy recovery and all the best for you both at this difficult time.
This was such a touching story, and the cake sounds absolutely wonderful too, comforting, wholesome, and filled with love in every bite. Sending best wishes for your husband’s continued recovery. And thank you (and Nancy!) for sharing the recipe.
This looks so delicious!
I hope your husband gets well soon. I recently made some ‘sugerless’ cookies with my young granddaughter in Brooklyn using mashed bananas. Your cake recipe reminds me of those cookies- less ‘guilt’ and lots of flavor! Fran from G’day Souffle’