July 31, 2012

Superlicious Choc-Banana Cake

My kids loved banana, in fact, banana was the first fruit word all the three could pronounce when they were all beginning to mumble. This fruit is a wonder (to me :) ), easily prepared be it to raw, fritters..and most important easily digested to little tummies.

Since it is Ramadan, and only my 5 yo Iman & 1 yo Zarif were not fasting, hence our banana from last week was still 'there' on the kitchen counter.

I rather not waste those precious fruit and planned for something since morning..and ended up making this delicious, moist, soft and not too sweet banana cake (as I reduced tremendous amount of sugar). Glad that I decided to make this really delicious cake! The thin caramelized banana added on top was indeed a plus points!


Original recipe from : Kak Rima. Thank you Kak Rima for sharing such wonderful recipe!!

Made some adaptations as revised below;

Ingredients:
225g superfine flour 
3 tsp baking powder 
1/4 tsp salt 
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 
3 - 4 very ripe banana (about 1 cup), mashed (i used pisang emas)
200g castor sugar 
2 eggs 
125g unsalted butter, room temperature cut into small chunks 
100ml buttermilk 
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

For topping: 
I used 6 little pisang emas, slice thinly for topping 
1 Tbsp castor sugar 



Method
1. Preheat oven to 160C. Butter and line a deep 8 inch ring tin or 2 loaf tins
2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate soda. 
3. Add banana, sugar and egg into a food processor and whiz until thick and smooth. Add in butter, buttermilk  and vanilla, whiz till thick.
4. Pour into a bowl and add in flour. Mix until all were well together and add in the chocolate chips.
5. Place the sliced bananas on top of the batter and sprinkle with sugar. 
6. Bake for about 35 - 40 minutes. Do not open the oven during baking time or the center may sink. U'll know it is almost ready when your house are filled with with the sweet aroma of banana. Cool cake completely before unmoulding.




I will definitely be using this recipe again and again!

Had a large slice of the cake again for Sahur together with a big glass of milk..

Happy Ramadan all!!

2 comments:

  1. Memang kenyang kan one slice with a cup of milk. bertenaga..

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    1. Alhamdulillah kak Yan bertenaga, insyaallah :) TQ singgah ke sini kak :))

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