Jello Recipes
One of the Best Dark Chocolate Cake Recipes
Bananas and chocolate are a classic combination and bananas add a delicious sweetness to dark chocolate cake recipes. This tasty jello dessert recipe has a vanilla flavored crust and layers of dark chocolate and banana cream flavored mousse. This is a light, fluffy jello dessert, which is a winner with adults and kids alike because of its sweet, mouthwatering taste. Banana cream instant pudding is really good and it goes nicely with the chocolate instant pudding in some desserts.
This flavorful dark chocolate cake recipe is made in several layers to add to its appeal and the fruitiness is so nice with the other flavors. Banana tends to be quite an overpowering flavor if you use too much of it, so just use half a banana to enhance the banana flavor of that layer. If you are really keen on bananas, of course, you can use a whole one to give more banana taste to this dark chocolate cake recipe.
This cake is like a cross between a cake and a pie, in that it is a combination of smooth textures and crispy ones. This dessert is sure to go down well with your family and they will love the strawberries, banana and dark chocolate taste all combined together in one fantastic jello dessert.
Banana Cream Dark Chocolate Cake
Ingredients -
6 oz melted butter
1 cup Cool Whip
4 cups finely crushed vanilla wafers
3 cups cold milk
½ finely diced banana
1 package jello banana cream flavor instant pudding
1 package jello chocolate flavor instant pudding
2 oz melted dark chocolate chips
8 fresh strawberries
2 teaspoons finely chopped walnuts
½ cup white sugar
Preparation:
Combine the sugar, nuts, all except 1 cup of the wafer crumbs and the butter and press half of this mixture over the bottom of a 9 inch pie dish.
Beat the chocolate pudding mix with half the milk and half the Cool Whip for 2 minutes using a whisk.
Spoon the chocolate pudding over the crust and chill it for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Sprinkle the remaining wafer crumb mixture over the top and press it down with a spatula.
Mix the banana cream flavor pudding with the diced banana, the remaining milk, and the Cool Whip and spoon this over the crust.
Sprinkle the remaining cup of vanilla wafer crumbs over the top of the dessert, then drizzle the melted chocolate chips over everything and decorate with the strawberries.
Chill for an hour and serve in slices.
(Serves 8)
Photo Description:
This attractive banana and dark chocolate cake is not difficult at all to make and the fact that you are using two jello instant pudding mixes just saves you lots of work because it is so easy to prepare these instant puddings. If you enjoy dark chocolate cake recipes, you will like this tasty pie-style cake, with its crumbly vanilla wafer layers, banana pudding layer, chocolate pudding layer, and dark chocolate and strawberry topping. This fluffy jello dessert is bursting with the best flavors and it makes a great snack or an after-dinner treat after any kind of entree.
Fun Facts About Bananas
If you fancy making a banana cream dark chocolate cake, you might be curious about the fruit you are using to make it. Bananas are an unusual fruit. They are smooth and creamy but they do not contain juice as such. Actually bananas are the fruit of an herb, since the banana "tree" is a giant herb, not a tree at all. Many fruit experts believe that bananas were the first fruit to be cultivated by humans.
Today they are the fourth largest food crop in the world and most of them come from India. Bananas are such a large part of the Ugandan diet that the same word is used in the language for "food" and "banana." A cluster of bananas is known as a "hand" of bananas and individual ones are called "fingers."
Different Kinds of Bananas
There are different types of bananas. The soft, sweet yellow ones you are probably most familiar with are called "dessert bananas." The most popular one is the Cavendish banana and these are the ones most often seen in grocery stores. Before the Cavendish banana, the most popular one was the Gros Michel, but in the middle of the 1900s, there was an outbreak of the fungal Panama disease, which ravaged most of the Gros Michel plants. Many people believe that the Cavendish will also be destroyed by Panama disease within twenty years, which is why scientists are trying to develop a disease-resistant hybrid banana that you could use instead for your banana and dark chocolate cake recipes.
Then there are plantains, which look like extra big bananas, but they have a savory flavor. These need to be cooked. You might not have tried plantains and you certainly would not use them in a banana cream cake because they are not sweet, but they are a dietary staple in some tropical areas. Alexander the Great discovered bananas in India in 327 BC and they were introduced to the United States in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Celebration, where they sold for ten cents each. The average American eats about twenty-eight pounds of bananas every year.
The United Fruit Company changed its name to Chiquita and played a part in Central American politics in the 1900s, as they had a lot of holdings there. This company was nicknamed "The Octopus" because of its involvement with Central American politics and it is believed that Chiquita played a large role in the 1954 coup, which overthrew the government of Guatemala.
More Banana Facts
Did you know that half the people who are allergic to latex are also allergic to bananas, or that banana peel is edible? You would need to cook it to make it palatable though. The strings that go up and down the bananas are called Phloem Bundles and they distribute nutrients through the whole banana. Banana splits were invented in 1904 by an employee at the Tassel Pharmacy soda fountain in Pennsylvania, and this dessert is still popular today, along with more modern ones like banana cream dark chocolate cake.