I'm in a position where I need to bribe our workshop technicians and our lab secretary into helping me get stuff done quickly, so what better than a banana and chocolate cake?!
An Edible Bribe
Ingredients
(This will make two cakes - halve the amounts to make a single cake!)
For the cake
- 350g Butter
- 350g Caster sugar
- 5 Eggs
- 1tbsp Vanilla extract
- 3 Large bananas (375g peeled weight)
- 375g Plain flour
- 4 tsp Baking powder
- 250g Chocolate chips
- 300ml Double cream
- 400g Dark chocolate
- Cream the butter and sugar together.
- Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
- Mash the bananas in a separate bowl, then beat into the cake mixture.
- Fold in the flour, baking powder and chocolate chips.
- Pour into two greased loaf tins and bake at 180C for 1 hour.
- Turn out onto a rack to cool.
- Heat the cream to scalding point in a pan.
- Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate has melted.
- Allow the ganache to cool slightly to allow it to thicken. Smooth the ganache over the cakes and leave to set.
Okay, it just looks like cake batter as it waits for the oven, but I think it looks pretty good!
Out of the oven, it's not terribly spectacular either. The top was a little over done, but not horrendously so. I snaffled a bit of one of the cakes that got stuck to the tin; it's pretty non-descript and not horrendously inspiring. But then it's freshly baked, home-made cake, so it's pretty good still, just also a bit boring.
Every cake is pretty if you cover it with ganache :D
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