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Spongy Honey Banana Cake – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada Desember 2, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

This is THE recipe you NEED to try out at least once in your lifetime! The best banana cake I’ve every made! So soft, spongy, and absolutely delish! Oh, and it’s so darn easy to make it too. I told the husband that I’m going to bake a banana cake, walked to the kitchen, prep and sent it to the oven. Cleaned up the kitchen and was back in the room about 15 minutes later. My husband was so surprised, he said, “You are done baking already?!”, maybe he just wanted me out of his hair for a little while longer. 😛

I couldn’t even be bothered with lining my tin as you can see. I used a non-stick, sprayed it with baking spray, pour the batter in, and baked it. Nothing stuck to my tin when I flipped the cake out.

The recipe called for cooling the cake upside down immediately after it is out of the oven but I shock my cake instead. When you shock your cake, meaning drop your pan (with your cake in it of course) on the kitchen counter at least from a 20-30cm height, right after it is out of the oven, it prevents the cake from shrinking. This process breaks the wall within the air molecules that expanded during the baking process, and allowing air to enter the cake and retain it’s shape. If not, the air molecules will contract as it cools, which will result in shrinkage of the cake.

I did not cool my cake upside down, and it has very little shrinkage as you can see. I left the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, until it is cool to touch then flipped it out on the wire rack, and finally flip it back top side up to cool completely. Did the extra step just to test that there is little shrinkage with the shocking method. However, you can simply flip it out on the wire rack and allow to cool completely top side down too.

I used honey instead of sugar to keep the recipe sugar-free for the kids. Gave 1/2 of the cake to a co-worker who has a sweet tooth but is very careful about her refined sugar intake, and she loved it! She probably thanked me more than a dozen time. The husband had 2 in a row just before climbing into bed, and ordered me to save a few pieces for him. This is definitely going to be a staple in our family from now on. 🙂

Spongy Banana Cake

Delishar

Makes an 8×8 square pan

3 eggs 60g each, use fresh ones
1/4 cup honey 85g
200 g banana approx 2 large, cut into small pieces
100 g corn oil any neutral veg oil and melted butter works too
75 g fine wholemeal flour*
75 g cake flour*
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste / vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 160C.
Spray pan with baking spray or line pan with baking paper.
In your stand mixer bowl, whisk together eggs, bananas, honey, and salt on med-high until ribbon stage.
Meanwhile, sift together wholemeal flour, cake flour, baking powder, and baking soda.
Sift twice.
Fold in sifted flour mixture to eggs, until just combined.
Add oil, vanilla, and mix until batter is shiny.
Make sure not to overmix the batter and deflate it!
Bang cake tin on counter top a few times to remove large air bubbles.
Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
Shock the cake.
Drop cake on kitchen counter at 20cm height immediately after removing from oven to shock cake and prevent shrinking. (Read post to find out more about shocking)
Leave to cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove cake from pan and cool on wire rack completely before cutting.

*you can use 150g cake flour or top flour as well as all purpose flour in place of the 75g wholemeal + 75g cake flour.
Adapted from wensdelight

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Chia Seeds Banana Bread – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada Desember 2, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

Super simple one bowl bake that does not require a mixer at all! Well, ok maybe 2 if you consider the other bowl that you prepare the flour in. Quite honestly, you can just use your blender to mix the wet ingredients together and pour it into your wet, which saves you more time!

I like a little hand work out before enjoying my bake products. 🙂 This recipe is so easy, you can get the kids to help you out as well! Let them have some fun in mashing the bananas, crack some eggs, and whisk the wet ingredients together.

Added some chia seeds for a little boost in health benefits. Yes, we all have heard a lot about that tiny little seed that brings about so much goodness. But that exactly is it and what are the benefits and side effects of consuming them? If you are interested in finding out more, Health Ambition has a comprehensive article that explains everything you need to know about Chia Seeds.

The banana bread makes really good to-go breakfast. Opt to use maple syrup or honey instead of sugar. Simply substitute sugar to about 1/3 cup of honey/maple syrup.

Moist and totally delish! I love how the aroma of banana fills the house while it was baking in the oven! Here’s how to make the easy peasy banana chia cake.

First preheat your oven to 165C.
Grease your loaf pan.
Then whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and chia seeds.

Then you mash the bananas, mix in the vanilla extract/paste, sugar, buttermilk, and oil.
Mix till combined.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.

Mix until just combined.

Pour batter into your loaf pan.
Use a knife to draw/ make a slit in the middle of your batter.
This will allow your bread to rise nicely and produce that pretty and uniform cracked top.
Then bake until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Chia Seeds Banana Bread

Delishar

Makes a 9×5 loaf

1 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup fine wholewheat flour or substitute all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
2-3 tbsp chia seeds
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup sugar
3 over ripe bananas mashed
1/2 cup veg oil
1 tsp vanilla extract/paste
1/3 cup buttermilk 1/3 cup milk + 1 tsp vinegar
2 eggs

Preheat your oven to 165C.
Grease your loaf pan.
Mix mashed bananas, vanilla essence, sugar, buttermilk, and oil until combined
In a large mixing bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and chia seeds.
Add wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
Mix until just combined.
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake for 1 hour 20 mins or until skewer inserted comes out clean.

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Moist Banana Chocolate Chip Bread – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 29, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

Most banana bread recipes that I’ve tried yields a denser texture. However, this recipe produced a moist, soft, and fluffy banana bread! The secret ingredient used in this recipe is the greek yoghurt. It gives the banana bread it’s moistness. The brown sugar gives it a deeper, richer flavour.

I am simply in love with how the banana topping caramelised itself during the baking process. It took me a lot of self-control not to peel off those caramelised banana slices and stuff my face with it. Those melted chocolate bits inside of the banana bread comes as a pleasant surprise with every bite! The best part about this recipe is that it is a one bowl bake. You don’t even need a mixer for this. Just measure, mix, pour, and bake.

Since you are here, do check out my Chia Seeds Banana Bread and Healthy Wholemeal Banana Dark Chocolate Chips Bread recipes too!

Moist Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

makes adapted from
3/4 cup wholewheat / wholemeal flour or all purpose / plain flour if you do not have
3/4 cup all purpose flour / plain flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup castor sugar
1/2 cup greek yoghurt yes, you can substitute to plain yoghurt
2 eggs 60g
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
1 cup mashed ripe bananas about 2-3 large bananas
1/2 cup semi sweet mini chocolate chips
thinly sliced banana slices to top

Preheat oven to 175C.
Grease your loaf pan.
In a large mixing bowl whisk together the flours, sugars, chocolate chips, salt, and baking soda.
In a large measuring cup, whisk together the eggs, yoghurt, oil, and vanilla extract.
Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
Mix until just combined.Pour into prepared load pan.
Top with sliced bananas on the sides.Bake for 50-60 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
Let cool in pan for 5-10 minutes, then remove from loaf pan.
Eat warm or completely cooled.

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Triple Chocolate Banana Cake – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 26, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

I wanted to bake something easy, as a treat for the girls and the husband. Banana cakes / breads have always been a winner in the Kay household. Easy to make, plus it always turns out moist, and deliciously good. Here are some of my previous banana bakes:

Spongy Banana Cake
Chia Seeds Banana Bread
Banana Honey Chia Cake
Moist Banana and Chocolate Chips Bread
Chocolate Malt Avocado Banana Bread
Healthy Wholemeal Banana Chocolate Bread

At first, I was thinking of making a chocolate pound cake. However, I didn’t want to use that much butter, and the ripened bananas on the counter seems to be calling out my name, begging to be used. Didn’t take much persuading to decide of making this recipe. Super moist banana bread with tonnes of melted chocolate with each bite. So so sinfully good, I tell you! And easy to make to0!

I made a double batch of ganache that day and I didn’t want it to go to waste. So I baked another batch for my helper’s cousin in a 7 inch cake tin, divided it so I got 2 layers. Iced the middle with Nutella, layered sliced bananas, then poured ganache over the cake, and garnished it with some chopped walnuts. Simple Chocolate Nutella Banana Cake done. 🙂

Triple Chocolate Banana Cake

Delishar

Makes a 9×5 loaf pan

Chocolate banana cake

1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup good quality cocoa powder I used valrhona
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp espresso powder optional
1 cup mashed ripe banana about 3 medium banana or 2 large
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup greek yoghurt or plain yoghurt
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
1 cup semi sweet mini chocolate chips

Ganache

100 g dark chocolate chopped
100 ml heavy cream

Chocolate banana cake

Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
Grease and flour your loaf pan.
In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, and salt.
In another bowl, whisk together sugar, oil, yoghurt, bananas, egg, and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients into wet, and mix until just combined.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Bake for 55-60 minutes or until skewer comes out mostly clean or with few moist crumbs.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes before unmoulding and cool completely on wire rack.

Ganache

In a sauce pan, bring cream to a simmer.
Then remove from heat and add chocolate.
Allow to stand for a minute or two, then whisk until combined and smooth.
Cool ganache completely for it to thicken before drizzling over cake.

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Banana Peanut Butter Nutella Muffins – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 23, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

The night before baking, I asked my girls if they would like to make some muffins for breakfast. The both of them jumped in joy, randomly shouting out the muffins they’d like to make. “Apple muffins! Chocolate muffins! Banana muffins! Yummy muffins!”, they were so excited. So we had a short discussion before deciding on banana muffins, and of course with some chocolate in it. I suggested Nutella. This is going to be the first time that they are introduced to that jar of sinful deliciousness.

Yeah, we have been pretty strict about the girls’ diet. But we also believe in everything in moderation. The girls have to earn their own muffins by making it themselves. With some help from mummy, of course. My eldest, Melody helped with measuring the ingredients, mashing the bananas, and whisking the dry ingredients. Peighton lined the muffin tins, and helped with mixing the wet ingredients. They both took turns to mix in the wet and dry ingredients. And while I wasn’t looking, they sneakily popped a few peanut butter chips in their mouth.

It was a learning experience not just for the girls but also for myself. I had to learn to let go, and not be such a perfectionist about flour flying all over the place, and not exact measurements. I had to tell myself that each swirl that the girls created is uniquely beautiful on its own. It was an experience where I had to focus on the present, and allow myself to take in the positive energy exuded by the girls, rather than focusing on the should haves. I’m thankful for this experience, and grateful for the smiles and joy on the girls faces. They were truly mindful, and being in the moment. I’ve got so much to learn from them.

Oops! This post sort of took a turn to be a reflective piece! Oh well, the muffin turned out awesome by the way! They were soft, fluffy, and makes the perfect little snack! If you have not tried baking with your kids, you should. It’s a great bonding experience, but be prepared to make a mess, and just have fun. 🙂

Banana Peanut Butter Muffins with Nutella Swirls

Delishar

1 1/2 192g cup plain flour
3 large ripe bananas mashed
1/3 cup 67g castor sugar
1/3 cup 73g packed brown sugar
1 large egg grade aa, 65g, slightly beaten
1/3 cup 80ml vegetable oil
1 tsp 5g baking powder
1 tsp 7g baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup 100g peanut butter chips
1/4 cup 60g nutella

Preheat oven to 190C.
Heat nutella in microwave for 10 seconds blast until nutella is runny.
Don’t burn it!
Mash bananas and mix in sugar, egg, oil, and vanilla extract.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and peanut butter chips.
Add wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
Mix until just combined but still lumpy.
Fill liners to 3/4 full, then spoon about a teaspoon of nutella on top of each muffin cup.
Using a skewer or back of knife, create swirls.
Bake for about 20 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
Leave to cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to baking rack to cool completely.

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Banana Walnut Blueberry Yogurt Loaf – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 22, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

My girls asked me to bake them something with bananas after we got back from the USA. I looked at my pantry and found a pack of walnuts sitting there calling out my name. Grabbed the 3 over ripe and neglected bananas sitting sadly on the counter-top, then off to my tiny kitchen.

I usually stock some yoghurt in my fridge as a quick breakfast or snack. So why not add some in my bake to keep it nice and moist?! Happily, I opened up my fridge door but to my dismay, I’m out of plain or greek yoghurt! What I had left were nata de coco, aloe vera, and blueberry yoghurt. It was a no brainer to grab the blueberry, since blueberries and bananas usually go well together.

The house smelled so heavenly as the loaf cake was baking in the oven. My girls kept asking if it was ready, and if they can sneak a little bite. The blueberry yogurt flavoured the cake very subtly, not over powering the fragrance of the bananas. The cake turned out moist and light, with lovely walnut for a little crunch. This recipe turned out to be one of the best banana loaf cake I’ve made! Another super simple one bowl, mixer-free recipe for the win!

Banana Walnut Blueberry Yogurt Loaf

Delishar

Makes a 9×5 loaf

3 over ripe bananas mashed
1 1/2 cup 192g plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 cup 75g coconut sugar
2 large eggs room temp
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup blueberry yogurt or subtitute sour cream / greek yogurt
1/2 cup walnuts chopped
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup melted butter or coconut oil

Preheat oven to 175C.
In a mixing bowl, mash bananas.
Mix in yogurt, eggs, vanilli extract, and melted butter.
Stir in salt & sugar.
Then sift in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Mix until just combined.
Fold in chopped walnuts.
Bake 50-60 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before unmoulding to cool completely on a cooling rack.

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Chocolate Chips Banana Nut Oat Muffins (Oil-free) – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 21, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

After all that Chinese New Year goodies binge, I decided on making a healthier version of muffins. I made some oil-free muffins made with oat flour, coconut sugar, dark chocolate, bananas, and walnuts for the family to snack on. Be sure to use overly ripe bananas whenever you are using it for baking as it is much sweeter and has a better consistency. If you do not have coconut sugar, you can always substitute it with brown sugar.

The greek yogurt and bananas used in the recipe kept the muffins moist. The crumbs of these muffins are unlike those that are tender and will fall apart or crumble. These muffins are still moist but has a denser texture. Nonetheless, the girls still enjoyed their share of muffins. Can’t really go wrong with bananas, walnuts, cinnamon, and chocolate can we? Granted, it isn’t the same texture of muffins that you are probably used too, but you’ll definitely feel much better eating one or even two. 🙂

Chocolate Chips Banana Walnut Muffins (Oil-free)

Delishar

3 ripe bananas mashed
1 cup 285g greek yogurt
2 large eggs
½ cup coconut sugar or brown sugar
1 cup 90g oat flour
1 cup 98g whole wheat pastry flour
½ tsp. baking soda
1½ tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. vanilla extract
½ cup 82g mini chocolate chips, divided
½ cup 65g chopped walnuts, divided

Preheat oven to 350F/175C.
Line a 12 cup muffin tray with parchment liners.
Spray with non-stick spray if you are using regular paper liners or it will stick.
In a large bowl, combine masged banana, sugar, yogurt, vanilla extract and eggs.
Mix to combine.
In a separate bowl, combine oat flour, wholewheat pastry flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Whisk to combine.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in 3 batches.
Mix until just combined.
Fold in ¼ cup crushed walnuts and ¼ cup mini chocolate chips.
Fill muffin cups to 3/4 full.
Top each muffin with remaining chocolate chips and walnuts.
Bake 15-18 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

You can process rolled oats in food processor to get oat flour.
Or you can substitute plain flour if you do not have oats / oat flour.
Adapted from withpeanutbutterontop

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Healthy Banana Ice-cream – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 20, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

Ice-cream with only one ingredient? Oh yeah, you heard me! And with added carob powder, it’s extra good for you too! Ice cold dessert any time of the day sounds so wrong, but that’s totally right! I had mine at 10am in the morning for my tea-break before I left for work. And I felt good about it because it was vegan, guilt-free, and refine sugar-free! I felt even better knowing that there was Organic Carob in it! Some of you might be curious about what exactly is this Carob I mentioned.

Carob is a tropical pod with sweet caramel-like edible pulp. It is most often used as a substitute for cocao in dessert making. It’s similar to cocoa powder in colour, and can be substituted one-for-one in recipes. However, it contains 1/3 less calories as compared to standard chocolate! It is listed as one of the ultimate superfood along side acai berries, chia seeds, ginseng etc. It helps to lower cholesterol and regulate blood sugar, which is a common problem in our population.

Carob contains great source of calcium, three times as much calcium as milk, and is low in fat. It is rich in protein as well as vitamins like A, B, B2, B3 and D. Carob is an excellent source of calcium, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium and contains iron, manganese, barium, copper and nickel. It contains antioxidants, high in fibre, and protein.

What’s more, Carob is stimulant-free. So no worries about caffeine and theobromine with the little ones, and people who are sensitive to caffeine! Because Carob is naturally sweet, it is a great alternative to refine sugar/chocolate. Due to the sweetness of Carob, when using it for baking and cooking, the amount of sugar added to the recipe can be reduced.

So does it taste like chocolate/cocoa powder? What does it taste like? The answer is no, it doesn’t taste exactly like cocoa powder or chocolate. Carob has a really nice earthy caramel like taste. If I were to put it, it’d have to be kind of like a cross between maple syrup and gula melaka. Very palatable. The carob powder has a lighter brownish hue to it which in turn would probably trick the mind thinking it is cocao.

Besides this recipe, I used the carob powder to make French toast, and drizzled carob syrup on the French toast in place of maple syrup for the family. My girls loved it so much, they have been asking me to make them French toast every single morning. I was amazed by how this one ingredient banana ice-cream turned out. Sweet, creamy, and absolutely delicious!

The girls, and the husband were raving about how good it tasted. And I actually felt good about serving my girls dessert, knowing it’s so much healthier than regular ice-cream! Check out Forever Young Enterprise for more carob recipes like ogura cakes, smoothies if you would like to know how you can use carob products in your baking. The carob products they carry are gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free, caffeine-free, non-GMO, and Halal certified. All their carob products have no added sweetener, and are suitable for consumption by diabetic patients because of their low glycemic index value (GI value of only 15!) and low glycemic load value (GL).

In collaboration with the good people at Forever Young Enterprise, the distributor of these amazing Australian certified organic carob products, I am hosting a giveaway of 2 sets of carob products for you to try out. Each winner will receive a 200g of raw carob powder, a 200g of roasted carob powder, and a 250ml bottle of carob syrup. To take part in the giveaway, simply complete the widget below.

Visit Forever Young to find out more about Carob products, or purchase some of this amazing superfood.

One Ingredient Healthy Banana Ice-cream

Delishar

Makes about 2 cups

3 large ripen bananas sliced

Optional

2 tbsp roasted/raw carob powder
Chopped walnuts
Carob syrup to drizzle

Slice your bananas into 1/2 inch rounds.
Place in ziplock bag and freeze until frozen. (2-3 hours or overnight)
Blend frozen bananas in food processor together with carob powder.
Scraping down sides some time to make sure well blended.
At first the banana pieces will look crumbled or smashed. Scrape down the food processor and continue blending until smooth and creamy.
Eat immediately if you like soft-serve ice-cream.
Or transfer back into air-tight container to freeze for another hour or so before serving if you like a more solid ice-cream.
Serve sprinkled with walnuts, and drizzle some carob syrup.

Mix it up! Add some nuts, nutella, peanut butter, mint extract, strawberries etc!

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Best Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 18, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

There’s always bananas at home, and it’s not always that we consume all of it before it goes overly ripe. The husband and my girls seem to think that bananas with a little spots on it isn’t as appealing. Thank goodness for banana bake recipes, that I get to use my spotted bananas. I always have to remind the husband and my helper not to throw away the spotty bananas, as there have been a couple of times I got disappointed only to find out that my bananas that I’ve been saving for baking was thrown away because it was ‘too ripe’.

I’ve made a lot of banana related recipes for the family and shared it on my blog. Some of my favourite includes Guilt-free Banana Ice-cream, Spongy Honey Banana Cake, and Banana Walnut Yogurt Cake. But this recipe tops the list! Deep banana flavour, caramel notes from the brown sugar, little bits of bittersweet chocolate chips to compliment, and the muffin… the moist moist muffin with tender crumbs! It’ll bring you to a muffin high! lol!

You can also make this recipe healthier by substituting 50% of the flour with wholewheat flour. That means, 96g of wholewheat flour + 96g of plain flour, instead of all plain flour. Use unsweetened applesauce in place of butter to reduce the overall calories, and do use dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. 🙂

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Best Banana Chocolate Muffins

Delishar

3 large ripe bananas mashed
1 &1/2 cup 192g plain flour
1/3 cup 67g castor sugar
1/3 cup 67g brown sugar
2 tsp baking power
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup 75g melted butter
1 large egg
1 cup 175g chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 200C.
Line your muffin tray.
Whisk together salt, sugar, flour, and baking powder.
Add melted butter, egg, vanilla extract, and mashed bananas into flour mixture.
Mix until almost combined.
Add chocolate chips and fold about 4-5 times.
Your batter should still be lumpy, do not over-mix or you’ll get tough muffins.
Divide batter into muffin liners.
Bake 13-17 minutes. (Mine took about 15 minutes)
Allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

To reduce calories, you can substitute butter with unsweetened applesauce.
Adapted from recipe.com

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Sticky Banana Toffee Cake – Delishar

Diposkan oleh pbnbigesdipada November 17, 2023dalam judi 0 Komentar

I’m a big fan of toffee or salted caramel… I’m also a huge fan of pudding cakes, such as my Sticky Date Pudding, that I absolutely heart to the max! Perhaps it’s the sticky and gooey texture that I really enjoy, or that fluffy yet moist cake that acts like a sponge, soaking up all that delicious sauce. Whatever the reason is, this 2 dessert recipes are the ones that I highly recommend you give it a try.

The first time I had this cake was when I was dining at Gorden Ramsay’s restaurant, Bread Street Kitchen. I remembered the first bite I took, it literally took my breath away. I closed my eyes, gathered enough strength in me not to melt away, and whispered a “wow”. I could not get enough of the cake! Although, I have to be honest that I don’t quite fancy the sauce. It was a little too thick, kind of gooey and starchy like in consistency. But the cake was amaze-balls!

So I got home and started researching on sticky banana toffee cake, tried a few. Made a few different sauces to go with it. And here I am. The perfect combination. Try it, and try not to fall in love with it. It is humanly impossible not to.

Sticky Banana Toffee Cake

Cake adapted from once upon a chef

Sauce

200 g brown sugar
200 ml heavy cream
50 g butter
1 tsp vanilla extract

Cake

1-3/4 cups 220g all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup 113g unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
3/4 cup 150g sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup 375g very ripe mashed bananas, from 2-3 spotty bananas
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt

To Serve

1 ripe banana sliced
Sea salt flakes Fleur de Sel

Sauce

Add sugar, butter, cream, and vanilla in a heavy bottom sauce pan on low heat.
Melt all the ingredients and bring to boil.
Lower heat and allow sauce to reduce and thicken, about 5 mins.

Cake

Preheat the oven to 175°C.
Grease a 8-inch baking dish.
Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
In a large mixing bowl, mix the melted butter and sugar until blended.
Add the eggs, mashed bananas, lemon juice, and vanilla extract, then mix well.
Stir in the flour mixture until just incorporated.
Do not over mix.
Transfer batter into the prepared pan and bake 35 minutes, until golden brown and skewer inserted comes out clean.
Spread about 1/3 cup (80ml) of the sauce over top of the baked banana cake.
Return the cake back into the oven, bake for another 5-6 minutes to get the sauce bubbly.
Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for at least 30 minutes.

To serve

Slice warm cake into 9 portions, drizzle warm sauce over cake, top with sliced bananas, and a little sprinkle of Fleur de Sel.

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