Banana Chocolate Marble Cake

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Title: Banana Chocolate Marble Cake
Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
Yield: 8 servings

2 1/4 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking soda
1 1/4 c Light brown sugar
1/4 c Salted butter
1/2 c Sour cream
1 1/2 c Mashed bananas
1 lg Egg
1 ts Pure vanilla extract
6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
Melted
1 tb Orange zest
Ganache:
1/2 c Heavy cream
6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
1 ts Orange zest

Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a square
baking pan. Combine flour and baking soda and mix well and
set aside. Blend sugar and butter using electric mixer and
scrape sides of bowl when necessary. Add sour cream,
banana, egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add flour
mixture and blend just until combined on low speed. Gently
fold in melted chocolate and zest and stir just until
marbled pattern develops. Do not overmix. Pour batter
into baking pan. Bake 40-45 minutes or until toothpick
inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15
minutes and invert onto rack. Cool to room temperature.
Ganache: scald cream in saucepan and remove from heat.
Add chocolate and zest. Stir until blended and cover pan.
Set aside. After about 15 minutes, stir frosting until it
is smooth and pour into a bowl. Chill until firm. Flip
cake right side up onto a serving plate and frost with
ganache.

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