While He Was Out

There was a company birthday again recently and as usual, there was a cake 🙂 Chocolate-y and whipped cream-y, with ruby red berries. Heaven in a cake pan! Not a crumble survived the celebration crowd.

The base-cake recipe is from SavorySweetLife:

Ingredients:

1 stick of salted butter, softened to room temp.
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 large ripened bananas mashed ( or 2.5 small bananas) – I replaced one banana with a very ripe pear (had to use it for something :))
1 tsp. vanilla  – I didn’t have any so left it out
1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 Tbl. cocoa powder
1/2 cup of sour cream
1 cup of mini chocolate chips (regular chocolate chips work too) – I used a bar of 60% chocolate, mashed it into little pieces – voilá, chocolate chips!
1/2 cup of chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven…

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