COOKS: Banana Cake

Hello! ☼

I'm back from Jakarta and I just spent the afternoon baking a banana cake! And I was also freaking out that my mum was missing since morning and no one knew where she was *gasp* but she's back, she's safe. OH and there was a monkey in the house! I didn't get to see it but apparently it stole some of our vegetables and scurried off. It's probably hiding somewhere in the bushes, monkey monkey. Okay now back to my banana cake it smells so amazing mm mmm ~ Cinnamon, coffee powder and bananas sure make a lovely combination of scents. I wouldn't mind smelling like a banana cake. I followed the recipe quite closely so I'll just leave the link here ☞ Banana Cake Recipe

I did tweak the recipe a little by reducing the amount of sugar from 3/4 cups to about 1/2 a cup and the sweetness was just right especially when the chocolate chips were so sweet. 

Another thing is, the original recipe called for really ripe bananas to be used but I didn't have really ripe bananas.. I even tried to speed up the ripening process by leaving my bananas out it in the sun but that didn't do much and I had to bring them in early because they might attract the monkey. (Not that I don't want to see the monkey though). Grr. I could smell bananas during baking but when I tried a slice I got mostly cinnamon and chocolate, not so much banana so yeap, really ripe bananas are essential!

Now for some photos. 

First, the results! 

Paired the cake with even more bananas! Caramelised with my Echire butter yum, the crunchy charred parts were extra tasty. The green concoction, by the way, is brown rice green tea with mint, basil, rosemary and agave nectar, it was good. Super refreshing.

Next, the process!

The dry stuff.

The wet stuff.

The mixing the wet stuff. That's my new hand mixer, it's fun.

The combining the wet and dry stuff.

The add some coffee powder and chocolate chips stuff.

The pour it into a greased tin stuff.

The done baking stuff! 

And that's that. My mum loves it and that's wonderful 'cause I made it mainly for her, she's always been requesting for banana cake so here's it! She likes to top her banana cake with cheese and toast it up so the cheese melts, seems like a strange combination but it's good. Bakeries in Jakarta often carry bread with banana and cheese so maybe it's an Indonesian thing? We're quite sure it would be good with some ice cream too!

On a side note: Oh man oh my Jasper's in Pulau Ubin and there's 15 more days till he gets to contact civilisation. Praying to the universe that all is going well for him! No jelly fish stings or scary things ~ 

再见