Chocolate Banana Cake
- 5 small bananas
- 3 ounces chocolate, bittersweet
- 1 cup cake flour sifted
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 x powdered sugar
- 1 cup creme de banana
- Butter two, 8 inch round pans.
- Line them with wax paper, butter the paper and flour the pans.
- Place two bananas and the milk in a electric blender or food processor.
- Blend at low speed until homogenized.
- Set aside.
- In top of a double boiler, over hot, but not simmering water, melt the chocolate.
- Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 325F (160C).
- Beat egg whites with 1/2 cup sugar until peaks keep their shape.
- Set aside.
- Beat the yolks with the remaining 1/4 cup sugar until thick and ribbonlike.
- Fold the bananas and the chocolate into the beaten egg yolk.
- Alternately, a third at a time, fold the beaten egg whites and the flour into the chocolate mixture.
- Mix only until smooth.
- Do not overmix.
- Divide batter equally between the prepared pans and bake in the preheated, 325F (160C) oven until a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 25 minutes.
- Cool two minutes in the pans, then gently invert on a cooling rack.
- When cool, split each layer.
- Peel and cut three banaas into 18 inch segments.
- Place banana slices on the cream.
- Assemble the cake with the cream and banana slices between layers.
- Sprinkle the top with confectioners' sugar.
bananas, chocolate, cake flour, milk, sugar, powdered sugar, creme de banana
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/chocolate-banana-cake-37795 (may not work)