My teens are always ‘STARVING’ and even when I double recipes, these days they gobble it all down in one hit which means sadly for me there are barely any leftovers to reuse or repurpose : (

For the sake of my sanity I’m determined to beat this and create meals and snacks which are nutritious and FILL ‘EM UP so I’m not constantly cooking!

Grab my ebook Real Food For Hungry Teens and fill those hollow legs!

So my first endeavour resulted in this Double Chocolate Banana Slab Cake full of ingredients to satisfy and satiate.

With nutritious ingredients like banana, oats, chia seeds, eggs, milk, butter, nut butter and a little avocado, this cake is the answer to my prayers to stop the incessant niggling and nagging for ‘more food’ especially after school.

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is amazing quality, they stock all my favourite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

Cacao Powder
Maple Syrup
Whole Spelt Flour 
Rapadura Sugar
Baking Powder
Salt
Cinnamon
Dark Chocolate Chips
Rolled Oats
Medjool Dates
Coconut Milk

If you’re looking for more recipe inspiration take a look at my ebook, Easy Wholefood Lunchboxes.

It’s packed with 40 delicious nut-free, refined sugar-free sweet and savoury recipes which have all been kid-tested and approved, and take the guesswork out of what delicious, healthy food to pack your kids for lunch!

If you need nut-free icing take a look at my 10 Real Food Icing recipes here.

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Double Chocolate Banana Slab Cake

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings 14

Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

CAKE

• 3 ripe bananas
• 115 grams butter melted
• 2 eggs lightly beaten
• ¼ cup milk can use any milk like almond, dairy, coconut, rice, oat ....
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup rapadura sugar or coconut sugar
• 1.5 cups whole spelt flour or unbleached plain flour
• 1/2 cup cacao powder or Dutch processed Cocoa
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 3/4 cup whole oats
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

ICING

• 1/4 cup nut butter I used peanut butter because that’s what I had
• 2 teaspoons pure maple syrup or rice syrup
• 3 teaspoons raw cocoa powder
• 2 Medjool dates
• 2 tablespoons avocado can’t taste it but gives body to the mix and extra nutrition!
• 1 tablespoon milk you can use almond, dairy, rice, coconut etc, any will work
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

• Grease and line a 20 x 20 square tin
• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.

CAKE

• In a large bowl, mash the bananas.
• Melt butter and pour over the top of bananas and stir. Add eggs, vanilla, milk and combine well.
• Sift in the flour, cacoa powder, baking powder, sugar, salt and cinnamon. Add chia seeds, whole oats and chocolate chips. Fold the mixture until just combined.
• Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake approx 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. All ovens are different so I would check at 20 minutes to check if cooked.
• Remove from oven. Allow to cool in tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto cooling tray. Cool completely before icing.

ICING

• Pop all ingredients into a small food processor and blend until smooth.

Notes

Cut into squares or bars and store in air tight container or freezer.

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Some other delicious healthy treats you might like are Raw Caramel Slice and Cookie Dough Energy Balls.

Do you have hungry kids who are bottomless pits too?