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Ingredients
For the cake
- 4 Very ripe bananas (~350g peeled weight)
- 310g Honey
- 2 Eggs
- 3tbsp Olive oil
- 3tbsp Milk
- 78g Self-raising flour*
- 130g Plain flour*
- 80g Strong bread flour*
- 3tsp Bicarbonate of soda**
- ~1/4 Nutmeg (just over a gram)
- 110g Chocolate chips
- 250g Mascarpone
- 35g Honey
- Dried banana chips
- Mash the bananas with the honey.
- Whisk in the eggs, oil and milk.
- Fold in the flour, baking powder and nutmeg.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the mixture between a greased 1lb loaf tin and 5 cupcake cases and bake at ~180C for ~15mins (cupcakes) or ~30mins (loaf tin) until cooked through.
- Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
- Cream the mascarpone and honey together.
- Cut the loaf cake in half horizontally.
- Sandwich the loaf cake with the mascarpone/honey mixture and spread the rest on the top of the cupcakes.
- Embed banana chips in the top of the cakes.
**Honey is slightly acidic, so no cream of tartar should be necessary. I think...
Here's the mixture at the end of step 1. As you can see, there are still quite a few lumps of banana - I should have mashed the bananas on their own first and then added honey afterwards. Well, hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
Ready for the oven - check out my new cupcake moulds!
The cupcakes out of the oven. They're slightly overcooked, and one has an elephant man thing going on, which will need amputation at some point. But they look like cupcakes at least!
Here's the loaf cake out of the oven and finally cooked through. It's a bit... what's the word? Oh yes, BURNT TO HELL! I've now discovered that the stupid crappy college-provided oven has the heating element on the top of the oven - so when you bake things, they also grill simultaneously. A complete pain for baking cakes! Oh well, I'll just have to hack the top off.
But at least it released from the tin nicely. :o)
The finished article.
I was wondering what you were doing with the flour on the ingredient list :)
ReplyDeleteCakes look pretty, just a pity your college ovens are so rubbish. Your cupcake liners look very useful too.
I have a few questions:
ReplyDelete- How much flour and what type *should* you have used?
- What was the verdict on the loaf/cake?
- where did the recipe come from?
My banana recipe is full of sugar, is this one sweet enough? is the filling necessary? (think of my waste line!)
Flour: I now actually just use standard plain flour throughout in general and add cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda (in a roughly 2:1 ratio) for baking powder. You could use self-raising flour instead and not bother with the baking powder. So just add the total amount of flour I used (although with anything like this, I'd just add roughly the right amount of flour and just add more to make the consistency right).
ReplyDeleteI never tried the loaf cake, as it was for a friend, but his verdict (who didn't try the cupcakes) was "a bit odd, but nice!". A few other friends who tried the cupcakes actually thought they were really good, so I think it might be a matter of taste. I think I may have used a bit /too/ much nutmeg though...
Recipe is adapted from this one (I've not actually tried this recipe though): http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/cakes/chocolate-banana-cake