This month has been slow and a bit gloomy. You wonder why?  With all the festivity around, it gets a little gloomy when you end up on your back looking throw the many delicious recipes being churned out in the blogosphere. But, then I pick myself up and live viciously throw all the deliciousness floating around. Once, I was at-least allowed by my body to get up and move around, I did do a bit of cooking, but had no energy to photograph. But, this cake had me muster enough motivation to click a few pictures. This cake is great to use up some of that ripe banana lying around and adding that cocoa will also satisfy that chocolate craving.
So have fun and bake some cake.
Eggless Marble Black & White Banana Cake:
Notes:
•I picked up the recipe from a blog. Unfortunately I did not write down the name and now I can’t find it.
•I will increase the quantity of sugar by another ¼ cup the next time I make the cake. This was not sufficiently sweet for me.
•The cake was also a bit dry. So I will be adding a little more oil as well. The rest it came out delicious and I need to work on my marbling skills. But, I may be hooked to the idea.
Mashed Bananas 1 cup(around 3 medium bananas)
Flour 1 ½ cup
Curd ½ cup
Sugar ½ cup
Oil ¼ cup
Baking powder ½ tsp
Baking soda ¼ tsp
Cocoa 2 tbsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
•Preheat the oven at 175C and line an 8” baking dish with parchment paper and oil.
•Mix sugar and curd and set aside.
•Mix the mashed bananas, oil and vanilla essence in a separate bowl.
•Now add the mashed banana mix to the sugar and curd and mix to incorporate. Try not to over mix.
•Now slowly sieve in the flour, baking powder and baking soda into the wet mix. Fold in the dry ingredients gently. This will take some time and patience but if you over mix this, the cake will come out tough.
•Remove half the dough into a separate bowl and add in the cocoa and fold in to incorporate.
•Spoon the batter alternatively and then run a knife throw to form a pattern.
•Bake for 20 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.
•Let cool, cut and enjoy !
Makes : 16 squares or 48 thin slices.
Enjoy ! ! !