Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2002

Made this cake for bday party. The adults ranted and raved over it! One person said it was the best cake they ever had. Even the ones who passed on it, HAD to try it b/c of all the raving over it. Not a single kid disliked it (it's cake, for crying out loud). I made it into a 2 layer. I should have doubled the recipe then. I frosted it with whipped vanilla. The frosting was overwhelming. From my experience, I would definitely follow Harriet's recommendation about sprinkling it with powdered sugar. And leaving it as a sheet cake. It's the perfect amount of cocoa and the chips add a nice surprise for a cake. I meant to add an extra half of a banana, but forgot. I recommend more banana in the recipe. It IS a very yummy cake! Thanks for submitting it. It made for a memorable cake.

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KMBLEE

Reviewed: May 22, 2003

This is delightful. I used yellow butter cake mix because its what i had on hand and i used jumbo chocolate chips. Goes great with Whip cream cream cheese frosting from this site.

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k. treat

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Johnsburg, Illinois, USA

Living In: Sarasota, Florida, USA

Reviewed: Nov. 10, 2003

This is a great cake, very moist and dense. I didn't have a cake mix on hand, so I just found a recipe for a white cake in a cookbook and combined the dry ingredients, then added everything from this recipe. The dry ingredients I added were 2 cups all purpose flour, 1 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tsp salt and 3 1/2 tsp baking powder. Turned out fabulous! Highly recommend it, with or without frosting. Will make again.

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MSABBYK

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Worland, Wyoming, USA

Living In: Hilliard, Ohio, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 23, 2004

Not being the best cake maker in the world, I found this easy and successful. I used a coffee/chocolate icing and it was lovely, especially the next day.

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SAJA2003

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Dec. 13, 2004

Nice light cake. I didn't have any sour cream, so substituted vanilla yogurt. To cut down the fat, I used half oil and half applesauce and had a ton of frozen bananas so used two in this recipe. Worked out fine.

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Karen

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Reviewed: Feb. 21, 2005

good cake!!!!- heavy and chocolaty with nice flavor added thanks to bananas (i used two). it wasn't how i thought it would look, but it tasted fine! i just ate about 1/3 of the cake..will have to head to the gym shortly..

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YUMMY101

Reviewed: Mar. 26, 2005

MAKE THIS CAKE!! This is awesome, I love it. I had 2 bananas so I put them both in. We just served it with cool whip, no icing. Seriously...it's delicious, moist, and substantial. So make it. I'm not kidding.

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laetchison

Reviewed: May 8, 2005

I omitted the cocoa and added peanut butter chips. Yummy!

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natashap620

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada

Reviewed: Jul. 18, 2005

it was ok. not enough banana flavor, cocoa was overwhelming. i think it needs frosting, too.

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LINDAMDOW

Reviewed: Jul. 20, 2005

This was very disappointing. Could not taste the bananas, even though I used 2. And even though I wondered why you would use a white cake mix and then add cocoa instead of just using a chocolate cake mix in the first place, I was scared to deviate from the recipe so I did it. But since I ended up with what is basically a plain chocolate cake, I think I would have been better off using a choc. cake mix to begin with - - at least then it would have been a rich, dark color!

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