Banana Chocolate Cake

香蕉蛋糕是我喜爱的，如果看到好的食谱一定会bookmark起来。家里一向来都有买香蕉的习惯，除了生吃还会加进燕麦里。每次买都是一大串，都会 吃不完，我会把过熟的香蕉收藏在冷冻库里用在烘焙。当我看到这个香蕉巧克力蛋糕，我马上被吸引了，加上Rima的赞不绝口，我怎么能错过!

Well back to my bake, this cake was baked at July. Banana is the fruit that will always appear in my home, we will usually buy once  a week. Beside eating it, we will add it into the oatmeal for our breakfast. However the bananas always come in big bunch, so the supply is always higher than demand. Thus almost every week, there will be over ripen bananas for me to get rid which I will keep in the freezer for future baking.

So there is not surprise that whenever I see any good banana recipes, I will bookmark it and this banana chocolate cake went into my To Bake List immediately cos of the the rave from Rima.

Dunno why, when eating this cake will make me think of kuih lapis lol. I find this cake is so much suitable preparing for CNY, I have already planning to bake some to give away, I believe they will sure gonna love it heeheehee....

I am submitting this post to Chinese New Year Delights 2013 hosted by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover.

Recipe from Bisous A Toi.

Ingredients : (for 8" square cake pan)
200g margarine + 1 tbsp butter (I used 200g salted butter)
200g palm sugar (guala melaka)
6 egg yolks
2 egg whites - whisk till stiff peak
200g flour (I used cake flour since I have plenty of stock)
2 tbsp full cream milk powder
1/4 tsp salt (I omit)
100g dark cooking chocolate - chopped (I used both chopped chocolate and chocolate chips)

3 medium-size banana (600g) - mashed (I used 400g)
1/4 tbsp double acting baking powder 
2 drops of banana essence (I used vanilla extract)
adequate raisins, almonds, cherries or cheese for topping (I used sultanas)

Method

1. Preheat oven 175C, line and grease the pan

2. Beat butter and sugar till light and pale in colour

3. Add in egg yolk one at a time and continue to beat till well incorporated.

4. Fold in sifted flour, milk powder and double acting powder

5. Gently fold in stiff egg white and continue to mix till well combined

6. Lastly add banana essence or vanilla extract.

7. Pour batter into baking pan and sprinkle with currants or cherries or almonds or just cheese or sultanas according to taste

8. Bake for 35 minutes or till done.

Verdict?

The cake texture is rich, compact, tender and moist, very delicious. Banana and chocolate is a perfect couple, with the palm sugar added extra fragrant to the cake. This is one of the cake that dear husband given high marks since he is not a cake person, he even requested to bake for his office staff. This is a thumb up recipe, definitely a keeper.

蛋糕有种扎实的口感，味道很香浓，很湿润，非常好吃。香蕉与巧克力本是绝配，加上椰糖独特的香味，真的很赞！