Tag: banana cake desserts

These caramelised bananas with luscious gooey caramel sauce with a moist cake will make anyone drool. The best use for your ripe bananas.

Makes 2 cakes in the loaf baking pans.

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Ingredients:

For caramelizing the bananas:

Bananas large – 3

Light brown sugar – 1/3 cup

Unsalted butter – 1/4 cup

Salt – 1/4 tsp

For the Cake:

All purpose Flour/Maida – 1 1/2 cups

Salt – 3/4 tsp

Baking powder – 1 1/2 tsp

Sugar – 1 cup

Any vegetable oil – 1/2 cup

Vanilla extract or essence – 2 tsps

Egg – 1 large + 1 yolk

Buttermilk – 1 cup (room temperature)

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 F or 175 C.

Start by melting the butter in a skillet or kadai on low heat. Add the light brown sugar and salt and stir until it melts. Once it is caramelised, remove from the heat and set aside.

Grease 2 loaf baking pans and pour the caramelised sugar into both the pans equally. Now, place the bananas (as shown in pic) flat side up and round side down.

In another mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.

In a wide bottomed pan, place the sugar, oil and vanilla essence in a bowl. Whisk to combine. You may use an electric hand mixer for the same, if you wish. Then add the egg and the yolk and beat well. Next, add the buttermilk and whisk again.

Now add the flour mix to this wet mixture using a spatula gently. Do not mix it too much.

Pour this batter on top of the bananas and smoothen the top.

Bake for 50-55 minutes until it is cooked. Insert a tooth pick to see if any batter is sticking to it. If it comes out clean, the cake is cooked.

Run a butter knife gently around the pan. Let it sit for around 15 minutes until the caramel settles a bit. Now carefully, invert the cake onto a serving platter.

Serve it with vanilla ice -cream or whipped cream.