Chocolate Chips Banana Cake

The recent banana cake I did a few days ago caved in!  How could that happened and I was devastated beyond words.  Upsetting and feeling very adamant that I MUST make it happen the right way I want the cake to be.  Hahahahahaha!!!! Okie, I am being very frivolous with my words here, all becos I am in a super duper good mood this morning.  Well, the cake rose to the occasion last night as I attempted a new recipe.  You got it, I went to bed feeling sweet, loved and whatever.  It was definitely a good good day yesterday.

So, it was some trial and error on the new recipe that I researched and followed from a YouTube tutorial and for once, I decided to be hardworking to bring out my handheld mixer to do some serious works.  Ya lah, I am a funny person.  I am so lazy to bring out my mixer and rather be hardworking to manually beat and mix my flour/and ingredients and yes.... all these time.  I figure I must be serious this time and so guai guai brought out the handheld.


Ingredients:

Mixture A:
125g butter (room temperature)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp Vanilla Essence

Mixture B:
2 cups of Cake Flour
2.5 tsp Baking Powder
0.5 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk x 2 cups

Mixture C:
3 bananas (2 mashed bananas and 1 banana roughly mashed into chunks)
Choc Chips
Choc rice


Step 1:
Preheat the oven for 15mins at 170 degrees.  Lightly grease the baking tin.

Step 2:
Mixture A- Using the handheld mixer, mix the butter and sugar into cream (light and fluffy).  Add in vanilla essence and one egg and continue to mix (on gentle speed) until creamy again.  Add in the 2nd egg and continue to beat until well mixed and creamy.

Step 3:
Mixture B - Sieve 2 cups of flour and baking powder and salt over Mixture A.  Mix gently and add in the first 1/4 cup of milk and continue to mix on medium speed.  Add in the 2nd 1/4 cup of milk and mix on medium speed.  It should end up creamy and smooth.

Step 4:
Mixture C - Add in the mashed bananas and go on gentle mixing.  When the bananas are well mixed, add in choc chip and choc rice (leave some aside for decoratives) and using a spatula, fold everything in gently.  Take note not to overmix.

Step 5:
Pour the mixture into the greased tin.  Bring the tin to about 2 inch high and gently "drop" on the workstation to get rid of the air pockets.  You can also gently knock all 4 walls of the tin for the same purpose.

Step 5:
Send the tin into the oven to bake at 170 degrees for 35-40mins.  When baking is done, use a skewer or a toothpick to test the done-ness.  If the stick come out clean, the cake is done.  If its still wet and gluey, fret not.  Extend bake time by another 15-20 mins but reduce the temperature to 150 degrees.  Do avoid frequently opening the oven to check no matter how tempted you are.  The loss of heat may result in caving in, something we will hate to see.

Step 6:
Using the skewer again, check for done-ness one more time.  If all parts are firm when poking in and comes out clean, the cake is done!

Dun say bojio! I jio you to start baking now.  lol!!!


Happy mum

Banana Cake

Bananas... the kids' favourite but usually, they either end up eating too many in a day, or waste them by forgetting to eat and letting them "rot" before throwing.  Just nice, I have a pack of Cake Flour that has just expired by 1 month and a bunch of bananas that are too ripe and hence, decided to make a maiden attempt of the Banana Cake.  The end result - the hubby loves it for its "originality".  Don't ask me in what ways, becos I do not dare to eat banana cakes and hence cannot make any comparison to those sold outside.  In his words, the cake has a very nice banana aroma and the top of the cake is a little crusty while the inside is moist, soft but doesn't crumble easily.  Whatever, cos I still don't dare to touch bananas.  But happy that he loves it!

Ingredients:
Mixture A:
- 2 cups Cake Flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder

Mixture B:
- 125g salted butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 teaspoons milk

Whisk butter and sugar into cream and add one egg at a time into the mixture.  Add the milk last.  Set aside.

Mixture C:
- 3 bananas mashed (roughly instead of fine if you prefer to have chunks in the cake)


Step 1: Preheat the oven at 180 degrees and prepare the mixtures as above

Step 2: Grease the baking tray/tin with butter

Step 3: Add Mixture C (mashed banana) into Mixture A (Butter/Sugar/Eggs).

Step 4: Slowly add in Mixture B by folding the batter thoroughly.

Step 5: Pour into baking tray/tin.  Gently knock the tray to allow air to escape and for the batter to settle down nicely

Step 6: Send into the oven to bake at 180 degrees for 55 mins.

Tadah, the completed product!

Happy going-bananas!  Enjoy!


Happy mum