One of my colleague share the same birthday "date" as me, only different in the month. Upon request from my L colleague want me to bake a banana cake for S (B'day girl).
Actually i didn't want to bake as I afraid the cake doesn't taste good and of course it will be so embarrassing.. Hehehe..
But L keep pestering me to bake one and i think it is also a good opportunity for me to practice my baking skill.
After all the cake still taste good, the only thing is the cake is too sweet. I shall reduce the sugar next time if I will to bake again and I will increase the banana puree.
*Recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook
Ingredient:
For the Cake:
- 270gm soft light brown sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 200g peeled bananas, mashed
- 280gm plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking power
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 140gm unsalted butter, melted
- 100gm milk chocolate, melted
- 125gm icing sugar
- 40gm butter (I omit and use cream cheese)
- 6.5 ml milk (1 tsp + ¼ tsp )
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
Method:
For the Cake:
- Pre-heat the oven to 170°C
- Put the sugar and eggs in a clean bowl and beat with a handheld electric whisk until well incorporated. Beat in the mashed bananas.
- Add the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate soda and cinnamon to the sugar mixture.
- Mix it thoroughly until all the dry ingredients have been incorporated into the egg mixture.
- Pour in the melted butter and beat until all the ingredients are well mixed.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and smooth over with a palatte knife.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour, or until firm to the touch and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Leave the cake to cool slightly in the tin before turning out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- Halve the cake, and spoon the melted chocolate on the first layer and cover with the top layer.
- Mix all the ingredient together and pour the mixture on the cake surface and smooth with a spatula.
