Rich Chocolate Banana Cake

Photo credit by Jane Lee

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Preheat oven 170deg, bake for 25-28mins

PART A
1 large egg
2 tired banana (very riped)
120ml milk
60ml thick cream
60g melted butter
1 tablespoon vanilla essence

PART B
180g dark brown sugar
130g cake flour
35g valrhona cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoon of baking powder
3/4 teaspoon of baking soda

PART C
110g valrhona 70% dark chocolate
160ml heavy cream
7g unsalted butter

STEP 1
Melt the butter and let it cool off. Follow by all the rest of PART A ingredients

STEP 2
Add in all the dry ingredients and mix well.

Photo credit by Jane Lee

STEP 3
Add all the dry ingredients into the wet WET ingredients till all well combined.

STEP 4
Pour the batter into an 8" spring baking pan and balance into square pan. If you have a bigger baking pan, you can use it too.

STEP 5
Ganache pour over the cake and chill.
(Ganache- lightly heat the cream and add the chocolate plus butter to melt)

For deco, i toasted the blanched almonds and deco the ring of the cake and lightly press down and chilled your cake. You can do any deco.

NOTES:
1. You can replaced the dark brown sugar with caster sugar or brown sugar.

2. Do not have Varlhona cocoa power or chocolate, you can replace with any other brands that you have.

3. Recipe called for 1 ripped banana and i used 2 bananas.

4. For my oven - I baked 170deg bake for 28min or till the stick comes clean. Please adjust according to your oven.

5. I also added 40g of semi chocolate chips. *this is optional but added will taste even better!

Recipe adapted from 
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/the_best_chocol/

Happy chocolate!