Banana with Lava Chocolate Cake

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

For the Decoration Icing:

• 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:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 170°C
2. Put the sugar and eggs in a clean bowl and beat with a handheld electric whisk until well incorporated. Beat in the mashed bananas.
3. Add the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate soda and cinnamon to the sugar mixture.
4. Mix it thoroughly until all the dry ingredients have been incorporated into the egg mixture.
5. Pour in the melted butter and beat until all the ingredients are well mixed.
6. Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and smooth over with a palatte knife.
7. 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.
8. Leave the cake to cool slightly in the tin before turning out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
9. Halve the cake, and spoon the melted chocolate on the first layer and cover with the top layer.

For the Icing:

1. Mix all the ingredient together and pour the mixture on the cake surface and smooth with a spatula.