I have already tried banana bread. Several times now, because whenever I have some totally ripe bananas sitting on the table, they are asking to become a moist and tasty bread. Well, one day I discovered there are other things you can do with them. A banana-bread-like cake for example. Super-easy. You only need two bowls and 15 minutes to mix the ingredients together, no messing around with electric mixers or other gadgets. It tastes a bit like banana bread, but is a lot more moist and tender. A keeper, definite keeper.
You’ll need a 23×33 cm baking pan or a round 23 cm bakin
g pan and the following ingredients:
# In a large bowl whisk together the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
# In another large bowl, whisk together the eggs, mashed bananas, water, milk, oil, and vanilla extract. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir, or whisk, until combined. You will notice that the batter is quite thin.
# Pour the batter into the pan and bake at 180 degrees C for about 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
# Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Prepare the frosting. You might wanto to use Chocolate Ganache for frosting, like the original recipe says. I improvised a bit (tried to use up some cream cheese leftovers), so I made this kind of a frosting (similar to the one for the carrot cake): mixed together soft butter (1 tbsp) and cream cheese (3 tbsp); added some powder sugar and some melted chocolate. Then I spread the frosting on top of the cake. Made a kind of decoration with a fork, as you can see…You might want to top the cake with some dried banana chips, but I didn’t have any…
